Abortion on the rise in WA as Idaho travel ban challenged

Over the past year, Washington and Oregon have witnessed a flood of patients seeking abortion care while neighboring Idaho has criminalized some abortion-related travel. Termed “abortion trafficking,” the first-of-its-kind law makes it a felony to take a minor out of state to get an abortion without parental permission. The law’s critics say it will have significant consequences for some people, including Indigenous people in Idaho, and undermines tribal sovereignty. “What happens in Idaho happens on Indigenous land and we cannot just ignore sovereignty and treaty rights, because the state has...