Tennessee state legislators moved on Tuesday to advance a bill that would ban people from helping minors procure an abortion without parental permission – an act that the bill has dubbed “abortion trafficking”.
If someone illegally “recruits, harbors, or transports a pregnant unemancipated minor” for an abortion, they could face three to 15 years in prison under the proposed law, which has now advanced out of a statehouse subcommittee after a hearing.
