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Idaho Lawmakers Tried to Conflate Abortion with Human Trafficking and Seattle Attorneys Are Fighting Back

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Three years ago, the Idaho state legislature passed a law making it illegal to assist minors in crossing state lines to access abortion care. In the paranoiac tradition of American anti-abortion policy, the law was rooted in a poorly disguised moral panic: It specifically banned “abortion traffickin…

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  1. PBS NewsHour

    How Idaho's abortion ban reshaped reproductive care and fueled a fight for change (opens PBS NewsHour)

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    This November, voters in Virginia, Nevada, Missouri and Idaho will decide on the future of reproductive rights. In deeply red Idaho, a citizen-led initiative faces an uphill battle to restore some abortion rights.

  2. Crosscut

    How Idaho's abortion ban reshaped reproductive care (opens Crosscut)

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    How Idaho's abortion ban reshaped reproductive care and fueled a fight for change

  3. Truthdig

    Idaho’s Abortion Fight Has Become a Fight Over Voter Power (opens Truthdig)

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    As voters prepare to decide on the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act, a collapsing healthcare system and the future of direct democracy hang in the balance.

  4. The Stranger

    Idaho Lawmakers Tried to Conflate Abortion with Human Trafficking and Seattle Attorneys Are Fighting Back (opens The Stranger)

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    Three years ago, the Idaho state legislature passed a law making it illegal to assist minors in crossing state lines to access abortion care. In the paranoiac tradition of American anti-abortion policy, the law was rooted in a poorly disguised moral panic: It specifically banned “abortion traffickin…

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