ABORTION: Midwest spud threat

Americans who value reproductive freedom — and that’s the majority of us — are going on the offense when it comes to draconian bills like Idaho’s Senate Bill 1309. This outrageous bill would ban abortion before most women even know they are pregnant, and deputize antiabortionists to sue anyone who “aids or abets” in an abortion.

We’re telling Gov. Brad Little that if he signs into law the Idaho abortion-ban-and-bounty bill, we will boycott Idaho potatoes, Idaho’s top cash crop. And we’re asking all who want to protect abortion rights and American values to do the same.

We can do without Idaho potatoes. But our nation cannot prosper if it treats women with unwanted pregnancies as breeding machines, those who help them as criminals, and seeks to inflict the narrow tenets of a minority of certain religious Americans upon the rest of us.

ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR

Madison, Wis.