{"id":23775,"date":"2025-01-30T17:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bill-would-make-bringing-a-minor-to-colorado-for-abortion-gender-affirming-care-a-felony\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T00:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T00:28:06","slug":"bill-would-make-bringing-a-minor-to-colorado-for-abortion-gender-affirming-care-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bill-would-make-bringing-a-minor-to-colorado-for-abortion-gender-affirming-care-a-felony\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill would make bringing a minor to Colorado for abortion, gender-affirming care a felony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f325d8e3-042b-5edc-be29-807146185a37&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1152\" alt=\"Republican Rep. Scott Bottoms of Colorado Springs speaks outside the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday. (Sara Wilson\/Colorado Newsline)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Republican Rep. Scott Bottoms of Colorado Springs speaks outside the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday. (Sara Wilson\/Colorado Newsline)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Colorado representative introduced a bill Wednesday that would make bringing a minor from another state to Colorado for abortion or gender-affirming care a crime.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by Rep. Scott Bottoms, a Colorado Springs Republican, House Bill 25-1145 would add a provision in Colorado statute that says a person, corporation, or government agency commits felony human trafficking if they bring a minor to Colorado to receive an abortion or gender-affirming care.<\/p>\n<p>The bill likely won\u2019t make it far in the Democratic-controlled Colorado Legislature. Bottoms is the bill\u2019s sole House sponsor, and it has no Senate sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho in 2023 became the first state to outlaw \u201cabortion trafficking,\u201d which it defined as \u201crecruiting, harboring or transporting\u201d a pregnant minor to get an abortion or abortion medication without parental permission. In May 2024, Tennessee enacted a similar law. And Republican lawmakers in Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma introduced abortion trafficking bills, although those bills failed to advance before their legislative sessions ended.<\/p>\n<p>Bottoms announced this month that he is running for Colorado governor in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Bottoms\u2019 bill says that in any case brought in relation to the bill, a minor consenting to traveling for and receiving abortion or gender-affirming care would not be a permissible defense. A defendant also could not claim they did not know the minor was under 18 years old or believed the minor was 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The House Judiciary Committee will review the bill, though a hearing date has not been set.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-5855fb76317fbb7aad14a1c7f036cc69\">To read more stories from Colorado Newsline, visit www.coloradonewsline.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation unlikely to make it far in Democratic-controlled state Legislature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2612,394,14,28,61,1126],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-abortion","tag-colorado-legislature","tag-colorado-state-house-of-representatives","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-politics-general"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23775"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}