Good Faith Medical Judgement
Idaho Physicians Speak
New in 2025, this documentary-style stage production was developed from interviews with Idaho physicians about practicing—and deciding whether to stay—amid Idaho’s current legal climate. Professional actors perform edited transcripts and original narration, illuminating how policy meets the exam room and how those decisions ripple through families and communities in Idaho.
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Good Faith Medical Judgement is underwritten in part by theIdaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare.
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All doors open at 6:30 / shows at 7:00 pm local time
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Sandpoint
September 25
First Presbyterian Church
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Coeur d'Alene
September 26
Lake City Center
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Salmon
October 17
Episcopal Hall
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Moscow
October 22
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
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Twin Falls
October 23
Twin Falls Center for the Arts
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Hailey
October 24
Liberty Theater
Idaho physicians’ stories
Healthcare provider stories are vital. Hear their stories, in their own words:
I knew early on I wanted to be a doctor. At first, I thought maybe cardiology—the heart fascinated me. But after medical missions in India and Bangladesh, I realized what really called me wasn’t specialization. It was family medicine. Seeing the whole person in front of me. Caring for the community around them.
I trained in Southern California, but my wife and I wanted to come back north. I matched with a residency program here and I fell in love with family medicine here—delivering babies and pediatrics to geriatrics and end of life care.
But Idaho opened my eyes. In Portland, in Los Angeles, abortion was simply health care. A right. Here, I saw how rare it was. How many doctors stayed away—afraid of being blackballed, afraid of losing patients, afraid of being known as “the doctor who does abortions.”
That didn’t sit well with me. I believed people should have a right to an abortion if they want one. And if I was in an area where there was a high need, then it was my responsibility to provide it. I got training in abortion care. I sought out procedures, learned from Planned Parenthood doctors, made it part of my work. Because people deserve this care. Because no one should be denied compassion.
—Idaho Physician
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Idaho’s expanding healthcare deserts
Behind every statistic is a doctor on the front lines of healthcare. In Idaho's landscape of diminishing access to reproductive healthcare, many of these physicians are struggling to provide care in often impossible circumstances. This stage production amplifies the experiences of obstetricians practicing in Idaho under Roe and now post-Dobbs.
Since Dobbs, 43% of Idaho's OB/GYNs (114 out of 268) left the state, stopped practicing obstetrics, retired, or closed their practices. The exodus disproportionately affects rural areas, with only 23 OB/GYNs remaining to serve areas outside of major population centers. Now 500,000+ Idahoans have to drive 30 min to 2+ hours for care. Source: JAMA Network Open.
Who knowingly or recklessly performs or induces an abortionCriminal abortion shall be a felonyEvery person who performs an abortion commits the crime of criminal abortionImprisonment of no less than two yearsProfessional license shall be suspended for six monthspermanently revokedThe presence of any fetal heartbeatDamages not less than twenty thousand dollarsPreborn human individualExcept in the case of a medical emergencyGood FaithFacts known at the timeGood FaithReasonable medical judgementGood FaithThe crime of criminal abortionPreborn human individualexcept in the case of a medical emergency