Helping a pregnant minor receive abortion care without parental consent will soon be a crime punishable by prison time in Idaho. A new law will make Idaho the first state to criminalize interstate travel for abortions since Roe v. Wade was struck down.
Anti-abortion demonstrators at the Idaho Capitol on Jan. 21 in Boise.
“This bill is one of the most extreme bills I have seen in my career at Planned Parenthood,” Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman, Idaho state director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, told Yahoo News. The Idaho law creates a new crime called “abortion trafficking,” which prohibits adults from obtaining abortion-inducing medication for a minor, or “recruiting, harboring, or transporting the pregnant minor” without the consent of the minor’s parent or guardian.
Planned Parenthood’s DelliCarpini-Tolman said that young people who face an unexpected pregnancy usually involve their parents in the decision making, but that’s not always the case.
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