Idaho Can’t Enforce Abortion ‘Trafficking’ Ban During Appeal

Idaho’s top attorney has lost a bid to enforce a law that bars doctors and others from helping minors get legal abortions in other states during an appeal of an order blocking it.

Attorney General Raúl Labrador (R) didn’t show that the state will be irreparably harmed by the order, which prohibits prosecuting alleged offenders while the case proceeds in a federal appeals court, Magistrate Judge Debora K. Grasham, of the US District Court for the District of Idaho, said Thursday.

Labrador, not the state, is the defendant in the case challenging a law he says bans abortion “trafficking.” He ...