Reproductive Health

Idaho voters will get to decide whether to restore abortion rights in the state this November after a campaign gathered enough signatures for the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act initiative to make it on the ballot.

Wildfire smoke is associated with a growing list of health impacts. New research now ties it to reproductive harm in bulls – a finding with implications for humans.

Some lawmakers in our region are arguing abortion bans help keep a population young and growing. Others say they lead to more people leaving the state.

The time window for in-state care has shrunk to what providers say is "essentially a ban.”

Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska went to Cheyenne a day before the House and Senate reconciled their versions of the budget bill to check in with the Wyoming Hospital Association President Eric Boley. He shared how the budget and some bills going through the legislative session may help or hurt Wyoming’s healthcare situation.

Despite St. John’s Health and the Teton County Health Department ending their collaboration on the clinic, it carries on as a community resource.

This comes as the number of rural hospitals and OB/GYNs delivering babies is dwindling.

The high cost of living and other economic conditions could be to blame.

Legislators heard from experts and members of the public about topics including rural emergency services and maternal healthcare.

A new study says the abortion pill mifepristone is 22 times more dangerous than previously known. What to make of a study that seems to upend years of accepted science?