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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIdaho Is About To Become The First State To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion
Idaho already has some of the most extreme abortion restrictions on the books, with nearly all abortions banned in the state and an affirmative defense law that essentially asserts any doctor who provides an abortion is guilty until proven innocent. And now Idaho Republicans have set their sights on hindering certain residents from traveling out of state to get an abortion.
House Bill 242, which passed through the state House and is likely to move quickly through the Senate, seeks to limit minors ability to travel for abortion care without parental consent. The legislation would create a whole new crime dubbed abortion trafficking which is defined in the bill as an adult who, with the intent to conceal an abortion from the parents or guardian of a pregnant, unemancipated minor, either procures an abortion
or obtains an abortion-inducing drug for the minor. Recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor within this state commits the crime of abortion trafficking, the legislation adds.
Abortion trafficking would be a felony, and those found guilty would face two to five years in prison. The legislation also includes a statute allowing the Idaho attorney general to supersede any local prosecutors decision, preemptively thwarting any prosecutor who vows not to enforce such an extreme law.
Since the bill would criminalize anyone transporting a pregnant minor within the state to get an abortion or to obtain medication abortion, it could apply to an aunt who drives a pregnant minor to the post office to pick up a package that includes abortion pills. Or it could target an older sibling who drives a pregnant minor to a friends house to self-manage an abortion at home. Either violation would carry a minimum sentence of two years in prison.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-abortion-bill-trafficking-travel_n_641b62c3e4b00c3e6077c80b
progree
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Haggard Celine
(16,820 posts)and coming from a person in Mississippi, that's really saying a lot. It's like the whole state has turned into Ruby Ridge. We've got to expand the SCOTUS and get these freaks out of power before they really get going.
betsuni
(25,138 posts)But too many idiots think both sides are the same so I'm not voting or other idiotic reasons.
AZ8theist
(5,339 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)We can't afford to lose this one, and the more they show themselves for what they are ahead of the elections, the better.
Because the more aware and afraid those who are currently oblivious, uncaring, denying, or supportive become, the better. While they can still save themselves by joining us to vote no.
Buckeyeblue
(5,491 posts)-Idaho has grown 21% since 2010
-Idaho Hispanic population has grown but it is still 80% white
-Just under 30% of the population has college degrees
-Average household income is about $29,000 (this seems to be well below the national average)
Archae
(46,262 posts)Emile
(21,912 posts)Irish_Dem
(45,654 posts)Idaho could reward informants with a bounty fee or other goodie.
In China it would mean a better job or apartment, etc.
Right wingers never think things through.
E. Normus
(74 posts)if I'm wrong, but isn't the right to move about freely a benchmark of what is considered to be a free country?
Irish_Dem
(45,654 posts)Sky Jewels
(6,862 posts)So, not women.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,721 posts)Just the puke party defending your personal liburtees.