Adults may now be imprisoned for “abortion-trafficking” minors (or, helping them end unwanted pregnancies).
, barring parents who’ve impregnated their own children via rape from bringing lawsuits against other adults involved in the abortion. Those adults would still be subject to prospective prison sentences, though the bill’s language exempts people who merely “provide information regarding a health benefit plan.
”that the law “does not criminalize, preclude, or otherwise impair interstate travel” — which would be an infringement on his constituents’ constitutional rights — and did not bar adults from seeking abortion care outside of Idaho. Rather, he wrote, 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.
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