WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 2023 decision by U.S. Magistrate Judge Debora K. Grasham that blocked the enforcement of Idaho’s abortion trafficking law. 

The following is a statement from Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life:

We are pleased with the decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that Idaho’s law protecting minor daughters can be largely enforced. Idaho’s law protects minors from those who would circumvent parental rights by transporting a minor girl within the state to obtain an abortion. This law protects both the unborn child and her mother. 

Idaho’s law is based on National Right to Life’s model law. National Right to Life congratulates its Idaho affiliate, Right to Life of Idaho, for its work and efforts in seeing the law passed and upheld.

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. NRLC works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.