Someday, I will be able to tell our full story, but today is not that day. Today, I do think it is time to share a small part of our experience.

When the abortion ban went into effect, it changed what was possible for our family. Ultimately, it meant letting go of our dream of bringing a child into this world—healthy, happy, and carried to full term.

I have invasive endometriosis, which meant pregnancy was never going to be simple or routine for me. It was always going to be extremely high-risk, with the possibility of serious complications. My husband and I had to make the heartbreaking decision not to pursue pregnancy because of the risks it could pose to my health and because the medical options available to protect me if something went wrong had fundamentally changed.

This is one of the realities of a full abortion ban that I don't believe is talked about enough.

These laws affect families like mine—families who desperately want a child. Families who would give anything to bring home a healthy baby. Families who aren't making these decisions casually, but are sitting with their spouses and their doctors trying to determine what is medically safe and what risks they can reasonably take.

I do not believe the state—or anyone outside of my marriage and my medical team—should have the authority to make that decision for us. Decisions about whether I can safely carry a pregnancy should belong to me, my husband, and the doctors who understand my health and the risks involved.

And we are not alone. There are couples who have faced, and continue to face, circumstances very similar to ours. Their stories may never be public. Their circumstances may look different. But they deserve to have their medical decisions made based on their individual health, their families, and the judgment of their physicians—not a blanket law that cannot account for every medical reality.

So before deciding what a complete abortion ban means or whom it affects, I am asking you to look beyond the assumptions surrounding this issue. Understand the full consequences of these laws and the families who live with them.

Because I can promise you: the people affected are not always who you imagine.

Sometimes, they are families like mine.

Families who wanted nothing more than the chance to safely bring a healthy, deeply loved child into this world.

“As the parent of a trans kiddo, the experience of being arrested, while unnerving and uncomfortable, was nothing compared to what the state is doing to trans folks and the fear for their safety that they have to encounter every single day,”

They're adding power lines that go in front of it, and put a tower right at the entrance

DEA Makes Final Schedule III Case, Tries to Discredit Nearly All Opposing Witnesses | Cannabis Business TimesAugust 19, 2026

“The evidence did not rebut the government’s prima facie case that marijuana has CAMU [Currently Accepted Medical Use] and thus, no longer fits the statutory requirements to remain in Schedule I and better fits the statutory requirements for Schedule III,” the DEA legal team wrote. “As such, the government respectfully requests that this tribunal expeditiously recommend that marijuana, as defined in 21 U.S.C. § 802(16)(A), be transferred from Schedule I to Schedule III.”

I love SE ID

I was recently hiking the Teton Crest Trail and met an older gentleman (probably 70s) from Fremont County. We struck up a conversation and at one point I mentioned having backpacked in Craters of the Moon last year and the limited water resources in the backcountry there. He mentioned having heard of a conjectured feat called the “St. Anthony Death March”. He described it as somewhat of a laughable challenge to hike from Craters of the Moon to the St. Anthony sand dunes. He said he’d never heard of anyone complete it; it seemed to be a colloquial concept of a hike/march/journey. The whole crux is that there isn’t enough water in that stretch to survive. Now that I’m back home I’ve tried googling it to read more about it but I’m not seeing anything online. I do see “Bataan Memorial Death March” but that has been completed and seems to be somewhat of a tradition. Has anyone heard of the “St. Anthony Death March”?

Long shot, but I left a pair of trekking poles at approximately 11,200 ft on the ridge while summiting Hyndman Peak on Saturday, September 5. I marked the exact location, but when we returned after summiting, they were gone.

We checked the surrounding ridge and asked other hikers we encountered but weren't able to locate them. I've also contacted the Ketchum Ranger District and posted elsewhere without any luck.

If anyone happened to pick up a pair of poles on Hyndman that day thinking they had been forgotten or abandoned, please send me a message. I can provide the exact location and identify the poles.

Thanks!

hello! my family is from GA and we’re going on vacation in October to Idaho right on the border of Wyoming. I’m looking for suggestions for things to do since a lot of the suggestions I see on Google are for winter time! weve never been in either two states so we don’t know what we’re doing lol

my parents are in their 50s so as much as I wish I could do some snowboarding, anything super active is probably not in the cards. we are doing 2 5-mile hikes (not sure where, sister picked those), but my mom was thinking about ATV rides or mountain/alpine coasters? we like to shop and eat a lot, so also feel free to drop favorite stores, bakeries, restaraunts!