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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Texas doesn’t “own” people who are in Texas. They aren’t citizens of Texas. They are citizens of the US or some other nation. Texas can require residents to pay state and local taxes, get a Texas drivers license, etc. but those things don’t give Texas control over those people. I can have a Texas ID, pay taxes, vote, etc. in Texas and none of that gives Texas any authority to prevent me from leaving the state. They have no legal basis to even ask why anyone is leaving.  [/quote]

Yup, even if you did pee on a stick at the border, and you were pregnant, and the embryo was deemed a “person,” the state still has no authority to prevent either of these “persons” from interstate travel.[/quote]

What if a friend of the woman testified that she believed the woman intended to kill the fetus, which is considered a person in Texas, and the Texan government thinks that person is unable to consent to the procedure and therefore should not be, effectively, kidnapped by crossing state lines to a state where the procedure is available legally?[/quote]

That would be stupid. Traveling while pregnant isn’t kidnapping. Are they going to make a law that no embryo or fetus can be transported out of state? That no woman can leave the state while pregnant? [/quote]

Ikr.  What in the heck?  What state would have such ridiculous unenforceable restrictions?   It is not possible for the current anti abortion laws to even be enforced much less some additional anti travel nonsense.   [/quote]

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