Idaho Governor Signs ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Bill Into Law

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a law on April 5 making it a crime to transport minor girls across state lines to get an abortion without parental knowledge and consent.
The law, which takes effect in 30 days, doesn’t infringe on an adult woman’s ability to seek an abortion in another state, Little said in a letter to Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyle.
“Rather, the ‘abortion trafficking’ provision in the bill seeks only to prevent unemancipated minor girls from being taken across state lines for an abortion without the knowledge and consent of her parent or guardian,” Little said.
Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a chemical abortion, are seen at the Women’s Reproductive Clinic, in Santa Teresa, N.M., on June 17, 2022. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
According to the law, abortion trafficking occurs when an adult, “with the intent to conceal an abortion from the parents or guardian of a pregnant, unemancipated minor, either procures an abortion … or obtains by recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor” to another state for the procedure….}