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I don’t think we disagree on the intent or even some of the possible attempted tactics of the far right - but we part ways on the above.  I think it is dangerous to just paint the worst case scenario and insist we are helpless against it. There is no deus ex machina that is going to swoop in to save us. This is not the playing field I would have chosen (in a million years) but there are plenty of ways to resist and fight this both in the courts and other venue - and it starts by not just conceding to ridiculous arguments that states can bar interstate travel and enforce their laws across state borders without check.[/quote]

I'm the OP of this thread and I am not conceding that states will be able to bar interstate travel; I am trying to predict what they will try to do based on the argument that an embryo is a person and has constitutional rights to life and liberty or whatever the legal argument is.

I also believe that people who are pro choice should not be arguing about whether an unborn child is or is not alive, or a person.  Nor that women have the right to decide their own health care.

Rather the argument should be that no human has to share their blood, nerves and other organs with another human against their consent.  No matter how that situation started -- voluntary, rape.  No matter the age of the person, no matter the health of the person. A perfectly healthy 25 year old who accidentally gets pregnant through consensual sex and doesn't want to share her organs with a fetus, doesn't have to share use of her organs with a fetus.  There is no other relationship in human existence that is the same as that of a fetus sharing a mother's body.  Only that mother gets to decide how much of her body, her blood, her digestive system, her organs, she wants to share

THAT's what we need to fight for.

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