Radical pro-abortion donors have dumped more than $1.8 million into the campaign for Idaho’s Proposition 1 in a matter of days, a surge pro-life advocates say is meant to legalize abortions late in pregnancy — as late as 37 weeks — without a physician and without parents ever being told.
Idahoans United for Women and Families, the committee backing the initiative, finished that burst of fundraising with nearly $3.8 million cash on hand, Boise State Public Radio reported Thursday.
Television ads from that group and from the lead opposition committee, Too Extreme for Idaho, have already begun airing. Counties started mailing absentee ballots last week.
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The biggest recent check was $650,000 from Government That Works PAC, a national leftist committee. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave $250,000.
Gwendolyn Sontheim, an heiress to the Cargill agribusiness fortune, gave $250,000.
Jill Grossman, who funds causes in Ketchum and the San Francisco Bay Area, gave another $250,000. Kristine and Jeff Stoddard of McCall, who work in commercial real estate, contributed $252,000.
Supporters present the measure as a restoration of abortion but in realtiy it would allow killing babies in abortions up to birth with no limits.
Mary Huffaker of Coeur d’Alene, writing at LifeNews, called it something harsher than the old Roe regime and urged a no vote.
“Now in 2026, we are faced with Proposition 1. Worse than Roe vs. Wade. It allows abortion up to 37 weeks, no physician required, and no parental knowledge needed,” Huffaker wrote. “Idaho law says if a baby can survive, a doctor must try to save it. Prop 1 deletes that.”
“If Prop 1 passes, Tammy could visit a clinic without a doctor, without her parents’ knowledge, and even at seven months pregnant, get an abortion,” she wrote. “She’d never know the joy of giving life and would have to live with psychological damage for the rest of her life.”
Huffaker described a neighborhood girl she called Tammy, a high-school junior, engaged and pregnant in the years after the late 1960s.
“Tammy did what many young women did, she consulted Planned Parenthood. Not seeking to end her pregnancy, but only support in completing high school with a baby, the clinic’s only advice was abortion.”
The pressure, she wrote, was overwhelming after the fiancé’s parents sent him into the military. A nurse later told Tammy she had other options, including adoption. She placed the child with a couple who wanted to raise a baby.
“Thirty years later, Tammy met her child, now a successful adult. She was thankful.”
“Please vote no on Prop 1,” Huffaker wrote.
