'Recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor within this state commits the crime of abortion trafficking,” the law says, making the act a felony punishable by two to five years in prison.
After enacting one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, Idaho Republicans are seeking to go even further—by inventing a new crime. A bill the Idaho Senate agreed to take up on Monday would curtail the ability of minors to leave the state to seek an abortion and make any adult who helped facilitate an out-of-state abortion without parental consent guilty of “abortion trafficking.
” “Recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor within this state commits the crime of abortion trafficking,” the law says, making the act a felony punishable by two to five years in prison.
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