{"id":414544,"date":"2026-01-18T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414544\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:04:08","slug":"womens-march-at-the-idaho-state-capitol-puts-spotlight-on-abortion-and-healthcare-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414544\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s March at the Idaho State Capitol puts spotlight on abortion and healthcare rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kivitv.com\/downtown-boise\/womens-march-at-the-idaho-state-capitol-puts-spotlight-on-abortion-and-healthcare-rights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KIVI<\/a>) \u2014 The Women of Idaho organization helped put together this year\u2019s Women\u2019s March \u2014 a rally where hundreds of Idahoans came to speak out against laws, policies and rhetoric of many local lawmakers, state leaders and the current presidential administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that this march is really a place of empowerment for voices that aren\u2019t usually heard here in Idaho,\u201d said Abigail Wallace, a student who spoke at the Women\u2019s March.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is \u201cFeminist Power is People\u2019s Power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo by saying \u201cFeminist Power is People\u2019s Power,\u201d we\u2019re trying to highlight the fact that when we empower women, we empower our society as a whole,\u201d said Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA major component of this March was getting awareness out about the ballot initiative to reinstate abortion as healthcare in Idaho,\u201d said an event organizer.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to abortion and health care rights, LGBTQ+ rights and education were in the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho News 6 also spoke with people who came to protest the Women\u2019s March, many from a local pro-life group who support Idaho\u2019s laws restricting abortions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also here to advocate for the women who have been aborted throughout the country. So if we\u2019re here to March for Women and advocate for women\u2019s rights \u2013 that\u2019s why we\u2019re here,\u201d said DJ Parham, with the White Rose Resistance.<\/p>\n<p> \t  \t  \t  \t=htmlentities(get_the_title())?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=get_permalink()?&gt;%0D%0A%0D%0A=htmlentities(&#8216;For more stories like this one, be sure to visit https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/ for all of the latest news, community events and more.&#8217;)?&gt;&amp;subject=Check%20out%20this%20story%20from%20EastIdahoNews&#8221; class=&#8221;fa-stack jDialog&#8221;&gt;  \t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOISE (KIVI) \u2014 The Women of Idaho organization helped put together this year\u2019s Women\u2019s March \u2014 a rally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-414544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}