

They loaded not just the White’s cattle but those of neighboring ranchers, the Jackson’s, and others. In a 1974 Enterprise Journal interview, two short years before Jamie would draw his final breath, we read: “Jamie White, in the saddle and listening to the lowing cattle, almost since his birth, remembers the long cattle trains that loaded at those pens. When his time came to pick up the torch, he did it willingly and used it to ignite a fire in the hearts of his children. But as Jamie sat and listened to the old-timers talk of the by-gone foundation days of White Ranch it fueled a passion in his soul. Gone were the days of driving cattle down the well-worn trails to New Orleans, for in the late 1890s the railroad came, and established cattle pens and a passenger-stop named White Ranch. James Taylor White V scurried to consult his notebook and reported, “Five thousand.” “How many head of cattle you suppose we have, sonny?” Jamie’s grandma asked him. Young Jamie sits spellbound as he listens to the familiar family history being recalled once again.Īt the time of this 1930 interview, 30,000 acres remained of the original White ranch, and they had an additional 20,000 under lease. Horses and sailboats were the main means of transportation in those days, Monroe states. In February, the Arizona senate passed an abortion ban that would prohibit the procedure after 15 weeks, similar to the law passed in Mississippi, which is expected to lead the supreme court to overturn Roe v Wade.Bonnie Tom Robinson, a reporter for The Press, hurriedly scribbles the words of Monroe White as White recalls the days when Cherokees would arrive for one month every summer to hunt when the deer were herded together with the longhorns. The Oklahoma senate recently passed six anti-abortion measures, including a copycat of the Texas ban. Terminating non-viable pregnancies would be a criminal offense. Among them, bills in Missouri would permit lawsuits against those who help someone cross state lines to get an abortion. Several Republican-run states have taken steps to restrict abortion rights. Last year, Little signed a “heartbeat” bill into law, but it included a “trigger provision” that stopped it being in effect until a federal court approved it, which has not happened. “This bill is not clever, it’s absurd,” said Democratic representative Lauren Necochea, adding that the rape and incest exemptions were “not meaningful”. Victims would have to file a police report and provide it to a doctor before they could get the procedure. While a rapist could not sue practitioners under Idaho’s new bill, family members could. Unlike the Texas law, the Idaho bill provides some exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
Heartbeat bill texas plus#
The bill provides a minimum reward of $20,000 plus legal fees within four years of the abortion for successful suits, compared to minimum $10,000 and legal costs under the Texas law. The Idaho bill would also allow family members to sue doctors who perform procedures after six weeks of pregnancy, before most people know they are pregnant. Jennifer M Allen, chief executive of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, an Idaho nonprofit, said: “Little must do the right thing, listen to the medical community and veto this legislation before it forces Idaho patients to leave the state for critical, time-sensitive care or remain pregnant against their will.” “Idaho’s anti-abortion lawmakers ignored public opinion and rushed through this legislation, looking to capitalize on the US supreme court’s failure to block Texas’s ban,” Planned Parenthood said, adding that the bill’s proponents have been open about wanting Idaho to become “the next Texas”. Planned Parenthood called the bill a copycat of the Texas bill that became law last May and was controversially left in place by the supreme court. The Senate has approved the bill and the Republican governor, Brad Little, is expected to sign it.Ībortion rights groups called on Little to use his veto.

On Monday, Idaho house members passed the ban 51-14. The conservative-dominated US supreme court is thought likely to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling which established the right, later this year. The news comes with abortion rights under assault across the US – despite clear majority support for such rights.
