A panel of federal judges this week largely upheld Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” law, a measure passed in the 2023 legislative session meant to punish an adult who helps a minor seek an abortion in another state or obtain medication that will induce an abortion.

One of the judges, Carlos T. Bea, a George W. Bush appointee, dissented from the ruling, arguing that because the primary enforcement of the law is by county prosecutors and not the attorney general, the plaintiffs had “sued the wrong person.”