Idaho ban on abortion trafficking can mostly go into effect: 9th Circuit

[Michie]

An appeals court panel has partly upheld an anti-trafficking law passed in Idaho last year that prohibits people from transporting minors outside of the state to get an abortion.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals released an opinionMonday mostly allowing the state law against abortion trafficking of a minor, known as Idaho Code § 18-623, to go into effect.

The ruling affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s preliminarily injunction enjoining Idaho’s abortion trafficking statute and remanded it back to the lower court for further proceedings. The law can mostly go into effect while the lawsuit against it continues.

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Idaho ban on abortion trafficking can mostly go into effect: 9th Circuit

An appeals court panel has partly upheld an anti-trafficking law passed in Idaho last year that prohibits people from transporting minors outside of the state to get an abortion

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[PloverWing]

I really, really wish they would choose another word besides "trafficking" to describe this. "Trafficking" implies that the minor is being kidnapped and forced to have an abortion against her will. That's not the situation being addressed. If speakers dilute the meaning of the word "trafficking", we won't have a word to describe actual enslavement.

The legislators could make a case for requiring parental consent without using this word.

 

[RileyG]

Good for Idaho!