Idaho GOP Votes To Criminalize “Abortion Trafficking”

Axios reports:

The Idaho legislature on Thursday evening passed the nation’s first law that makes it illegal for minors to travel out-of-state to get an abortion without parental consent. The bill now heads to the governor’s desk.

This is the first time that a state has put a law on the books that restricts its residents from interstate travel for abortion access. Idaho already has a near-total abortion ban in place. Neighboring Washington and Oregon allow minors to get an abortion without their parent’s consent.

Idaho’s HB 242 would imprison for up to five years any adult who accompanies a minor across out-of-state without a parent’s consent — an action that the bill calls “abortion trafficking.”

Read the full article. Photo: Bill author Sen. Todd Lakey.

Idaho to restrict minors from traveling for abortion in 1st such U.S. law https://t.co/c7zbc3QvJu

— Axios (@axios) March 31, 2023

Since last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republicans have gone whole hog on blocking access to abortion. Now, a new bill in Idaho, HB242, seeks to invent a new crime: “abortion trafficking.”https://t.co/Gf7ZrNYoNd

— The Mary Sue (@TheMarySue) March 30, 2023