Idaho Women's March 2025

Women are Fed Up and Fired Up!

2025

Idaho Women’s March

Saturday, January 18 at 2pm Idaho State Capitol

Give us Liberty or Leave Us Alone!

We are an inclusive, non-partisan gathering of girls, women and our supporters, focused on empowering voices in our community.

Women are Fed Up and Fired Up

Keep Mifepristone legal and accessible. The Supreme Court is set to permit states to ban Mifepristone  – a drug that’s proven safe and effective. If that happens, we must be prepared to act.

Prioritize Women's Health

Change the law to allow doctors to act to protect the health of the mother, not have to wait until her very life is at risk.

Idaho women's March 2017

2025 Action Plan

  • Show Up – Everyone come, let the legislature know we’re back!
  • Bring a pot and utensil to make noise in a first ever cacerolazo.
  • March down the middle of the street arm in arm with your sisters.

Women’s Healthcare is All of Our Issue

Decriminalize physician and healthcare professionals when providing medical standards of care.

The time is now to be outraged and at the deplorable condition of women’s health in Idaho. The time is now to fill the streets with women supporting women. The time is now for mothers, grandmothers, and aunts, fathers, grandfathers, brothers, and uncles to support women’s health.

Speakers announced for the 2025 Idaho Women’s March

Abigail Wallace

Betty Hannson Richardson

Representative Sonia Galaviz

Senator Melissa Wintrow/Gabrielle Wright

Betty Hannson Richardson

Abigail Wallace

Ani Carrell

Here are Links to News Articles of Interest

Jefferson Street and Capitol Boulevard to close for Idaho Women’s March in downtown Boise / KBOI

Thousands converge on Washington for a march days before Trump takes office / KTVB

WASHINGTON — Thousands of people from around the United States were rallying in the nation’s capital Saturday for women’s reproductive rights and other causes they believe are under threat from the incoming Trump administration, reprising the original Women’s March days before President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration.

Eight years after the first historic Women’s March at the start of Trump’s first term, marchers said they were caught off guard by Trump’s victory and are determined now to show that support remains strong for women’s access to abortion, for transgender people, for combating climate change and other issues.

Hundreds rally at Idaho Capital for the annual Women’s March / KBOI

Hundreds gathered Saturday afternoon on the steps of the Idaho Capital for the Idaho women’s march.

The march worked to bring together women and advocates of women’s rights in Boise, as similar protests took place across the country.

The event’s organizers said the march’s goal was to advocate for women’s health and eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls.

‘America is for everyone’: Women’s Day March in Boise / KTVB

“What do you want? What do you deserve? What do you believe in?” This was the starting chant of the Women’s March in Boise. The march, which has been happening since 2017, aims to unite people to support women’s rights and their right to reproductive healthcare.

One of the organizers, Cindy Thorngren, the president of the National Organization for Women’s local chapter, said the coalition working to put the march together is in it for the long run.

“You can change one mind at a time. And it may have taken 50 years for them to take our rights to abortion away, and it may take 50 years to get back. We’ve got to look at the long haul. But be strong,” Thorngren said.

‘Representation’: Idaho Women’s March takes place Saturday in Boise / Idaho Statesman

Around 1,000 people showed up to the Idaho Women’s March on Saturday at the Capitol in Boise, ahead of former President Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday.

One of the speakers, State Rep. Soñia Galaviz, told the Statesman the day was a way to show there was support and community in Idaho after the State Board of Education decided in December to limit diversity, equity and inclusion on college campuses. Even before the decision, Idaho State University and Boise State University had closed or restructured programs and centers.

“It’s representation of each other,” Galaviz said. “We are here as a community to see each other and listen to each other.”

The Women’s March originally started in reaction to Trump’s first presidential victory in 2016.

Idaho Women’s March
/ Boise State Public Radio

The Idaho Women’s March (IWM) mission is to promote women’s health and work towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls in every aspect of life.

Through intersectional grassroots activism, IWM collaborates with like-minded organizations to advocate for equal rights for women and girls, ensuring their voices are heard and their rights protected. This year’s event will feature speakers discussing feminist economics, reimagining democracy, and addressing white supremacy in Idaho. Attendees will also enjoy performances by the Idaho Peace Band and the NOW Super Troopers.

Don’t miss out on this incredible and dynamic event!

Idaho Women’s March draws a crowd
/ Boise Weekly

As the thermometer hovered around the freezing mark, about a thousand men, women and children — but mostly women — gathered at 2 p.m. at the State Capitol on Saturday for the Idaho Women’s March rally. The first march, a worldwide event, was held on Jan. 21, 2017, in response to Donald Trump’s 2016 election as president; in Boise, between 5,000 and 7,000 participated. This year’s crowd, while not as big as the first one in 2017, was much larger than last year’s, which drew around 300.

People came from all corners to the Capitol grounds, filling the steps, spilling into the street and Cecil D. Andrus Park while the Idaho Peace Band played protest songs such as “We Shall Overcome” and “This Land Is Your Land.”

Idaho Women’s March brings hundreds to Idaho State Capitol / Channel 6

“Women’s rights are a human issue. And that women deserve equality in this country,” said Abigail Wallace. She spoke at Saturday’s Idaho Women’s March and is a Junior at Bishop Kelly High School.

“We have gone so far backwards it terrifies me,” said Sue Tennant, who came out to support.

Idaho Women’s March will rally Saturday / Boise Weekly

Thousands of women and women advocates are expected to rally in Boise, across the state, and the country on Saturday, Jan. 18. In Idaho, the Idaho Women’s March will host the rally at 2 p.m. in Boise on the Capitol steps.

The Idaho Women’s March organization “works to promote women’s health and to eliminate all form of discrimination against women and girls in all aspects of life,” says its website. The organization takes action “through intersectional grassroots activism in collaboration with other organizations that promote equal rights for women and girls.” The organization has been active since 2017, when tens of thousands took to the streets to advocate for women. This year, it said in a press release from the group, “women are fired up and fed up! IWM is rallying to protect women’s rights for healthcare, personal choice, and freedom.”

See images from the Idaho Women’s March rally in Boise / MSN

More than a thousand people attended a rally at the Idaho Capitol in Boise to advocate for women’s rights.

Idaho women march at the capitol for more than just abortion rights

The Idaho Women’s march ..down the streets of downtown Boise, where hundreds gathered in front of the Idaho State Capitol on Jan. 18.

Minority house leader Representative Ilana Rubel gave a scathing indictment of the Idaho legislature on the steps of the capitol before the march began, calling Idaho one of the worst states when it comes to abortion laws.

Senate Bill 1229 was introduced on Jan. 20 to legislature, a bill that would remove rape and incest exceptions to Idaho’s already restrictive abortion bans.

While abortion rights were a large part of the discussion, with participants holding signs that said “Paws off my uterus (pervert)” and “abortion rights forever”, Rubel also condemned the Idaho State Legislature for letting the maternal mortality review committee to expire, making Idaho the only state without one. The crowd booed at several points during the speech, booing bills and the Idaho legislature as a whole.

“These perverse laws are likely to lead to the deaths of more pregnant women and maybe they didn’t want the committee collecting that data and publicizing it,” Rubel said during her speech. “We are also the only version in the state in the country that does not provide a year of postpartum medical coverage.”

For Rubel, and many others, Idaho’s failure to protect women’s health extends beyond the abortion laws. Rubel cited HB 381, a bill that would replace the word “fetus” with “pre born child” in Idaho law.

“That this is likely to end up blocking in vitro fertilization. Because apparently even if you want to be pregnant, the state and not you is the decider,” Reubel said in her speech.

Continue to the full article @ The Arbiter @ BSU

New bill would require study of Idaho maternal mortality

The Idaho Legislature could be taking steps to once again track maternal mortality data across the state after becoming the only state in the U.S. that does not review maternal death information over the summer.

Supreme Court can’t dodge abortion cases

The court will hear two cases on abortion this term, both dealing with a clash between federal law and the near-total abortion bans of red states. More cases are making their way through the legal system and likely will reach the Supreme Court.

Pregnant with no OB-GYNs around: In Idaho, maternity care became a casualty of its abortion ban

After an Idaho hospital closed its obstetrics department, pregnant women in the county have been left without nearby care. Their OB-GYNs fled the state.

Idaho Bans Out-of-State Abortions for Minors Without Parent’s Consent

The first-of-its-kind law imposes criminal penalties on anyone who helps a person under 18 leave the state for an abortion and classifies it as “abortion trafficking.”

As Abortion Laws Drive Obstetricians From Red States, Maternity Care Suffers

Some doctors who handle high-risk pregnancies are fleeing restrictive abortion laws. Idaho has been particularly hard hit.

Legal Actions Seek Guarantee of Abortion Access for Patients in Medical Emergencies

Her case is part of several legal challenges filed Tuesday involving patients and doctors in three states — Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma — who claim that those states’ abortion bans are preventing women with serious pregnancy complications from getting abortions, even in cases where the medical need is clear.

We Don’t Do That Here

Almost every state ban makes an exception when the pregnancy endangers the patient’s life, but three states — Idaho, North Dakota and Tennessee — have a stricter provision. In those states, the burden is on doctors to prove the patient’s life was in peril. In the other states, the burden would be on prosecutors to prove that it was not.

The Bear at the End of the Tunnel

It’s a This American Life story that begins as a story about a bear and in Act II it becomes a story about practicing medicine in Idaho.

Maternal Deaths by State Abortion Policy, 2018–2020

The differences among states are not limited to pregnancy-related deaths. As shown in Exhibit 6, overall death rates for women of reproductive age (15–44) in abortion-restriction states were 34 percent higher than in abortion-access states (104.5 vs. 77.9 per 100,000 people).

Idaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare

It’s a Facebook video of a conversation about women’s health. (It opens with 27 seconds of silence)

‘Our hearts hurt’: Men impacted by abortion restrictions share their stories

ABC News interviewed 18 women who say their medical care was impacted by bans.

The Fifth Circuit just made it even more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

The Trumpiest court in America just tried to neutralize a federal law requiring most hospitals to provide medically necessary abortions.

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Idaho’s Strict Abortion Ban

The court also temporarily reinstated the state law, which the Biden administration said conflicts with a federal statute on emergency-room care.

An Idaho College Removes Artwork About Abortion, Citing a State Law

Six works in a Lewis-Clark exhibition about health care were perceived to run afoul of a law that prohibits the use of state funds to “promote abortion” or “counsel in favor of abortion.”

Now Republicans Are Trying to Redefine Abortion Itself

If a woman in Idaho has a life-threatening pregnancy, state law dictates that the doctor must end the pregnancy in a way that provides “the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive,” which the State Supreme Court has interpreted to include performing a cesarean or vaginal delivery.

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