“From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake”
Fifteen dead children in one sect over ten years, and the shield protecting the parents was written in 1971 and widened in 1976. Idaho territory in 1887 handled this better than Idaho does now. Colorado repealed its version in 2001 and the sky held. Idaho keeps its exemption because repealing it would require legislators to tell a voting bloc no.