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The law creates a crime of “abortion trafficking” and criminalizes the “recruiting, harboring, or transporting” of minors without parental consent.

Mackenzie Davidson grew up in a Mormon household and sheepishly admits she knew little about pregnancy. “This is embarrassing,” she said, sitting outside a café along a street thronged with students in this college town. “But I didn’t know that you had to have sex to have kids until I was 13 or 14.” She’s a writer for the University of Idaho student newspaper, The Argonaut, and was asked recently to report on a new law. It’s now a crime to help a teen under 18 leave the state for...

Mackenzie Davidson grew up in a Mormon household and sheepishly admits she knew little about pregnancy.

Under the nation’s first law of its kind, teens must have parental consent to travel for medical care, including in cases of sexual assault or rape. Any adult, including an aunt, grandparent, or sibling, convicted of violating the criminal statute faces up to five years in prison — and could be sued for financial damages.

The law effectively criminalizes medical care legally obtained in neighboring states.

“This is one of the next frontiers of abortion litigation,” said David S. Cohen, a constitutional law professor at Drexel University

Life News

House Bill 242 recently became law, which makes a non-parent adult helping a minor to obtain an abortion without parental consent a crime punishable by 2 to 5 years in prison in Idaho. The law is set to go into effect May 5. The bill was first introduced on Feb. 28. On March 7, the bill...

Republican Gov. Brad Little signed into law a new measure making it a crime in Idaho to take a minor across state lines to receive an abortion without parental consent, which is expected to help [...]

IDAHO FALLS — Now that this year’s legislative session is over, eastern Idaho voters can recap the political season’s events at two legislative reviews. The first is in Idaho Falls, and the second is in Blackfoot. Idaho Falls Idaho Falls voters are invited to the Legislative Recap Luncheon, sponsored by Idaho Central Credit Union and […]