2025 Legislative Session: Reproductive Rights

In 2025, lawmakers continued to introduce laws that roll back reproductive rights and further threaten the health and safety of Idahoans. The most extreme bills would have established new and unusual legal and policy frameworks—like assigning personhood rights to fetuses—that assert moral and religious ideals in place of science and research-backed medicine.

Reproductive Rights Scorecard

Lawmaker Scorecards

See how lawmakers voted on key reproductive rights legislation.

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The Legislative Scorecard is a crucial accountability tool. We encourage you to use this scorecard to give your elected officials feedback on their votes during the 2025 Legislative Session. Direct communication with your elected officials is a valuable way to encourage them to protect our constitutional rights around the issues that are most important to you.

These scorecards can also provide valuable information on legislators for when you head to the polls.

View Our Reproductive Rights Scorecard

Reproductive Rights Wins

Thankfully, and in partnership with community organizations like Planned Parenthood and Legal Voice, we defeated every fetal personhood bill introduced this year. We also stopped a public funding scheme for fake, anti-abortion “crisis” pregnancy centers. These sham clinics are dangerous: they lack oversight, any meaningful professional standards, and often do not staff any actual healthcare professionals.

Additionally, we protected access to mifepristone and misoprostol, which are common and safe medications used for abortion and miscarriage care—a celebrated success that benefits every Idahoan.  

Setbacks for Reproductive Rights

Not everything was a win this year in our reproductive rights work. Lawmakers failed to clarify the limits of Idaho’s criminal abortion laws or provide meaningful protection to healthcare providers. Rep. Ilana Rubel (D-18, Boise) attempted to restore the right to abortion in Idaho—an effort that was ultimately unsuccessful.

Abortion rights rollbacks also appeared in legislation addressing public education, speech, and even financial services. A new law requires students, starting as early as fifth grade, to view a deceitful “fetal development” video linked to an extremist anti-abortion organization, despite the video’s well-documented medical and scientific inaccuracies. This video is dangerous in Idaho, where our draconian abortion laws threaten doctors and where students’ right to comprehensive sex and sexuality education is under attack.

What's Next

We expect lawmakers will continue to test legal and political limits in their quest to fulfill campaign promises and policy agendas that baldly attack bodily autonomy. And as threats to reproductive rights grow more nuanced and move into uncharted legal territory, our work continues.