The bill would make it a felony for people to transport minors for abortions without their parents’ consent.
creates the new crime of “abortion trafficking,” defined as an adult helping a minor obtain an abortion or abortion pills without their parent or guardian’s consent, by “recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor within this state.”
Abortion is banned in Idaho except in medical emergencies, so the bill would largely apply to people who are traveling to leave the state and obtain an abortion somewhere else, and the legislation makes clear that it still applies if “the abortion provider or the abortion-inducing drug provider is located in another state.”
The bill makes “abortion trafficking” a felony punishable by two to five years in prison, and gets around a trend seen in some anti-abortion rights states of local prosecutors refusing to enforce abortion bans, saying the Idaho Attorney General will enforce the law if local prosecutors won’t. House Bill 242 passed the Idaho state House earlier in March largely along party lines , and moved forward on Monday in the state Senate, advancing out of committee and to the full chamber.
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