This month Bonner General Health, the only hospital in a city of around 9,000 people, announced that they would no longer be delivering babies or providing other pregnancy and childbirth care.

Located in Sandpoint the hospital provided several reasons for discontinuing the service, one of them being “Idaho's legal and political climate." Without labor and delivery services in the city expecting mothers will now have to drive to the next closest hospital for care, which is 46 miles away.

Kelcie Mosley-Morris, a national reproductive rights reporter with States Newsroom reported on this story and joined Idaho Matters to talk more.