Idaho will seek to revive 'abortion trafficking' law in US appeals court

[RandySF]

(Reuters) - Idaho will urge a federal appeals court on Tuesday to revive a 2023 law making it a crime to help a minor cross state lines for an abortion without her parent's consent, which a judge blocked in November.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle will hear the case challenging the law brought by Lourdes Matsumoto, a lawyer and advocate who works with victims of sexual violence, and the Northwest Abortion Access Fund and Indigenous Idaho Alliance which helps people in Idaho access abortion.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Debora Grasham in Boise in a preliminary order found that the law signed by Republican Governor Brad Little just over a year ago violated the plaintiffs' rights to free speech and expression under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The judge also found that the law is unclear about what counts as illegal abortion trafficking.





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[bucolic_frolic]

1. There was a partner in that crime of getting pregnant

but the GOP laws leave the men alone. Rather sexist if you ask me.