Idaho’s Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act has qualified for the November 3 ballot. The initiative would establish a statutory right to make private reproductive-health decisions involving contraception, fertility treatment, pregnancy, miscarriage care, childbirth, prenatal and postpartum care, and abortion. The Attorney General’s ballot summary says abortion would be protected before fetal viability and, after viability, in defined medical emergencies involving serious threats to life, health, bodily function, or an organ. It also includes protections against certain penalties for patients, providers, and people assisting lawful reproductive care. Reproductive decisions can involve both profound personal autonomy and profound disagreement about unborn life. A workable law needs to say clearly what is protected before viability, what medical exceptions apply afterward, and how much discretion doctors have in emergencies.