A mobile billboard truck outside the Idaho Capitol on March 19, 2022, in Boise protests against a state law that allows relatives of the fetus to sue the medical professional who performs an abortion.Idaho has become the first state to pass a law explicitly restricting some out-of-state travel for abortions.makes helping a pregnant minor get an abortion, whether through medication or a procedure, in another state punishable by two to five years in prison. Gov.
“Giving them [minors] money, giving them a ride, helping them organize the visit to a doctor out of state — all of the activity that’s required to help a young person leave the state — any of that would be punishable,” said Elisabeth Smith, the director of U.S. state policy and advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
David Ripley, executive director of Idaho Chooses Life, a political action committee that lobbies for anti-abortion legislation, said one reason for the law is that minors are unable to make their own informed decisions about any kind of medical care. "That is the way, historically, all abortion restrictions have begun: by first limiting young people's access, and then moving to adult access," Smith said.
In 2021, Missouri lawmakers included a provision in a larger abortion bill that would have made it illegal for a person to help a Missouri resident get an abortion outside the state. But the state's House of Representatives blocked the provision.
Democrat party no longer exists… it’s now the wokeFarLeft party
Says the chief advocate for killing the unborn.
If I understand it correctly, any carrier (airline, bus company, etc.) could be criminally liable for selling a ticket to a 17-year-old if it turns out she was going out-of-state to get an abortion. Constitutionally overbroad? You betcha!
Living babies are ‘extreme’ to extreme Planned Parenthood extremists. Who allows these butchering clowns to be on their news feed? StalagPlannedParenthood
The 'abortion trafficking' crime is punishable by up to five years in prison. The law doesn’t prohibit interstate travel or block an adult from obtaining an abortion.
They should look up the Restrict Act:
ACLU please hurry!
Um, dudes?
Parents should have the final say in who drives their kids across state borders, even if they aren't getting a medical procedure. The bill is about parental consent, fix your headline.