Idaho Abortion Trafficking Ban Mostly Allowed to Take Effect (1)

Idaho can mostly enforce its first-in-the-nation abortion trafficking ban, minus a section that prohibits individuals from giving minors truthful, not misleading information about abortion, a federal appeals court said Monday.

The provision’s “recruiting” prong likely is an unconstitutional, overly broad regulation that “prohibits a substantial amount of protected expressive speech relative to its plainly legitimate sweep,” the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said. This prong, however, can be removed from the rest of the provision—allowing enforcement of the rest of the law—because it’s “neither integral nor indispensable” to the measure’s operation, the court said.

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