Opinion: Idaho’s new abortion law is first to challenge the right to travel
If Idaho’s experiment is a success, other threats to the right to travel will be coming. For now, Idaho is targeting people within the state who are directing minors on how to obtain pills or procedures out of state, but other proposals floated by the antiabortion movement are more expansive, such as bills, modeled on Texas’s SB8, that could allow bounty hunters to sue anyone who has an abortion out of state — even if those actors were following the law in the state where the abortion took place.
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Idaho becomes one of the most extreme anti-abortion states with law restricting travel for abortions
“The mere suggestion that the state would consider prosecuting someone for assisting a young person accessing safe, legal medical care in another state flies in the face of our democratic system and sets a dangerous statutory precedent,” she added.
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Five Points On Idaho’s Newly Passed, First-Of-Its-Kind Abortion Ban
Experts warned TPM back when the Supreme Court let Texas’ bounty-hunter law stand that these jurisdictional disputes would be the new front in the abortion war: red states seeking to police the procedure across their borders, and blue states trying to protect their providers from out-of-state prosecutions. With Idaho’s new law, that reality is taking shape.
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Health care providers sue Idaho AG over new guidance limiting out-of-state abortion referrals
Lawyers for the plaintiffs argue in the lawsuit that Labrador’s interpretation of the law runs afoul of several constitutional protections, including the First Amendment’s free speech guarantees.
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