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"So how is it that anti-women Republicans keep getting elected there? Unless women really do have a thing about voting against their self-interest." -- I suspect it is related to Abused Person Syndrome, which is the larger generic category that includes the species of "Stockholm Syndrome." Women (mainly) in clearly abusive relationships will frequently defend their abuser, and resist any attempt to be moved out of the abusive situation, even when their lives are clearly at risk.

The insidious wording of the Idaho law is that it is designed to ensure that minors in abusive family situations are forced to remain there, denying them even a pretense of agency. Anything beyond that would be so clearly unConstitutional that it is unclear that even this SCOTUS would uphold it.

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