Pro-Abortion Professor Shows She Doesn’t Understand Pro-Life Law She’s Condemning
It doesn’t take an extensive search to conclude that Law Professor Mary Ziegler is the pro-abortion movement’s abortion “expert” and we—the pro-life movement. We’ve covered some of his op-eds in the past, though not his amazing book “Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment.”
Most recently—last month, in fact—we criticized him New York Times piece with the title “The Abortion Wars Have Become a Fight Over Science”. But now we have a new opinion to examine—“Idaho’s new abortion law is the first to challenge the right to travel”.
HB 242 is modeled in part on the National Right to Life post-Dobbs model law to protect unborn children. This is the second law of its kind (Missouri was the first).
This will be short, because the error is so obvious. The headline says Idaho’s new law is about the “right to travel.” Ziegler argued “Starting with minors is a natural way for abortion opponents to test the waters of a legal prospect that — as a state law expressly aims to restrict the ability to travel from one state to another by choice — seems to challenge a fundamental principle of both federalism and liberty.”
Really? Nope. HB 242 Makes it a crime for an adult to bring a minor girl into Idaho for the purpose of an abortion with the intent to keep knowledge of the abortion from her parents or guardians . Anyone is free to transport themselves wherever they want.
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Also, in his second sentence, Prof. told us. Ziegler that “This week, Idaho passed the first law restricting travel for abortion. Framed as an ‘abortion trafficking’ bill, it criminalizes anyone who helps a minor obtain an abortion or the abortion pill without parental consent.”
In other words, HB 242 relates to “parental consent.” This is intended to notify parents.
So…the law has nothing to do with any “right to travel” and it also has nothing to do with parental consent. It overwhelmingly passed the state Senate 27-7 and the state House by 57-12-1.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared on National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.
