Idaho bill would criminalize transportation of minors across state lines as a form of human trafficking
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An Idaho bill would criminalize transporting a minor across state lines to seek an abortion as a violation of the state's existing human trafficking law.
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The legislation would apply to any instance where a child under the age of 18 is transferred within Idaho to receive an illegal abortion or across state lines to a state where abortion is legal. Anyone who recruits, harbors or transports "a pregnant minor with the intent to deprive the pregnant minor's parent of knowledge of, and to procure, a criminal abortion" could face two to five years in prison.
Current Idaho law, which was passed in 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, bans all abortions in the state with the exception of the life of the mother or in cases of rape and incest that are reported to law enforcement.