Idaho Seeks Green Light to Enforce Abortion ‘Trafficking’ Law

Idaho should be allowed to enforce its abortion “trafficking” ban while appealing a lower court order that blocked it, Attorney General Raúl Labrador (R) said.

Helping a teenager get an out-of-state abortion without her parents’ consent is a crime that doesn’t involve protected speech, Idaho’s top lawyer told the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Jan. 19. He asked the court for an emergency stay of the injunction.

Idaho’s provision targets conduct—including recruiting, harboring, or transporting a pregnant minor—not speech, as Magistrate Judge Debora K. Grasham found in her Nov. 8, 2023, decision holding that reproductive rights ...