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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAntiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines
Several national antiabortion groups and their allies in Republican-led state legislatures are advancing plans to stop people in states where abortion is banned from seeking the procedure elsewhere, according to people involved in the discussions.
The idea has gained momentum in some corners of the antiabortion movement in the days since the Supreme Court struck down its 49-year-old precedent protecting abortion rights nationwide, triggering abortion bans across much of the Southeast and Midwest.
The Thomas More Society, a conservative legal organization, is drafting model legislation for state lawmakers that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a resident of a state that has banned abortion from terminating a pregnancy outside of that state. The draft language will borrow from the novel legal strategy behind a Texas abortion ban enacted last year in which private citizens were empowered to enforce the law through civil litigation.
The subject was much discussed at two national antiabortion conferences last weekend, with several lawmakers interested in introducing these kinds of bills in their own states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/29/abortion-state-lines/
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)How would this be enforced without declaring a state as a "police state" and its Governor a DICTATOR?
Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)Cha
(297,318 posts)Freddie
(9,267 posts)Recreational pot is illegal here in PA but they cant stop me from buying and smoking it in Colorado. And safe states are already passing laws protecting providers and will not cooperate with law enforcement from banned states.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,399 posts)legal states will be told by the courts of the legal states to fuck off, they have no say in their laws as they aren't residents.