Washington, April 5. Idaho Governor Brad Little on Wednesday signed a new law that will penalize adults who help minors to abort or obtain abortion pills.
The legislation makes it illegal to assist a person under the age of 18 to obtain an abortion, transport them to a state where the procedure is legal, or provide them with abortion pills without the permission of their parents or legal guardians, according to text approved by the state congressmen last week.
People who violate this new law may be accused of “abortion trafficking” and face a maximum sentence of five years in prison, the regulations stipulate.
Idaho is the first state in the country to greenlight such a restriction, which penalizes out-of-state travel to obtain abortions.
Planned Parenthood, which advocates for high-quality, affordable reproductive and medical care in the country, called the recent law “despicable” and said it would do everything possible to repeal it.
“Idaho legislators have flown under the radar and passed the toughest anti-abortion laws across the country,” the organization wrote on its Twitter account.
Dozens of states across the country have passed laws banning all or part of the voluntary termination of pregnancy since the Supreme Court overturned the “Roe v. Wade” ruling, which since 1973 protected a woman’s right to choose.
Since the ruling, issued in June of last year, 18 of the 50 states have banned abortion in the US or have severely restricted it, and in 13, access to this service is practically impossible although there are exceptions, according to data from Planned Parenthood. EFE
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