A federal appeals court has ruled that Idaho can enforce its abortion travel ban, which prohibits minors from traveling out of state for abortions without parental consent. The decision Monday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a 2023 decision that had blocked the law on First Amendment grounds.

A panel of federal judges on Monday largely upheld Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” law, a measure passed in the 2023 legislative session meant to punish an adult who helps a minor seek an abortion in another state or obtain medication that will induce an abortion.

Idaho can enforce a first-of-its-kind "abortion trafficking" law against those who harbor or transport a minor to get an abortion out of state without parental consent, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.

A federal appeals court substantially resurrected Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” law that makes it a crime to help a minor cross state lines for an abortion without parental consent. In 2023, Idaho adopted HB 242,

A federal appeals court has ruled that most of Idaho’s law that makes it illegal to help minors get an abortion without their parents’ consent can take effect while a lawsuit challenging its constitut

A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that Idaho can partially enforce its "abortion trafficking law” which prevents adults from “harboring” or “transporting” minors out of state to terminate a pregnancy without their parents’ consent.

Nearly two years after it was first proposed by Republican lawmakers, an Idaho law that, as one rights advocate said, essentially "traps" people in the state to stop them from getting abortion care, was permitted to go into effect on Monday after a federal appeals court ruling.

In a state with no exception for rape or incest, anyone caught helping a minor obtain an abortion will face prison time

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed Idaho's abortion trafficking law to be enforced. The plaintiffs in the case, which includes Northwest Abortion Access Fund and The Indigenous Idaho Alliance,