'House Bill 242 might be the most extreme bill that I’ve ever seen in my career,' says the Idaho state director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates.
A mobile billboard truck outside the Idaho Capitol on March 19, 2022, in Boise protests against a state law that allows relatives of the fetus to sue the medical professional who performs an abortion.Idaho has become the first state to pass a law explicitly restricting some out-of-state travel for abortions.makes helping a pregnant minor get an abortion, whether through medication or a procedure, in another state punishable by two to five years in prison. Gov.
“Giving them [minors] money, giving them a ride, helping them organize the visit to a doctor out of state — all of the activity that’s required to help a young person leave the state — any of that would be punishable,” said Elisabeth Smith, the director of U.S. state policy and advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
David Ripley, executive director of Idaho Chooses Life, a political action committee that lobbies for anti-abortion legislation, said one reason for the law is that minors are unable to make their own informed decisions about any kind of medical care. "That is the way, historically, all abortion restrictions have begun: by first limiting young people's access, and then moving to adult access," Smith said.
In 2021, Missouri lawmakers included a provision in a larger abortion bill that would have made it illegal for a person to help a Missouri resident get an abortion outside the state. But the state's House of Representatives blocked the provision.
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