Reply to Can states actually outlaw traveling out of state for an abortion?

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "Can states actually outlaw traveling out of state for an abortion?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am reading about bills being introduced to make it illegal for a woman to leave the state in order to get an abortion.

So if one of these actually passes, how could it realistically be enforced?

Would pregnant women from the state outlawing travel be refused permission to travel to a state which allows abortions?'

Or, would pregnant women need to certify their pregnancy status with a doctor before leaving, and again upon return?

What about international travel?

[/quote]

The bills floating around that I’m aware of would not actually “prevent” anyone from traveling to get an abortion. They are more targeted at the providers of out of state abortion.  So if it’s illegal in, say Kentucky, but legal in Illinois, Kentucky would purport to have jurisdiction over Illinois providers for performing abortion on a Kentucky resident.  It’s not like they are going to have checkpoints at every state crossing giving pea stick tests. [/quote]

They could do a pee test at the state line. It would be similar to DWI checks.[/quote]

Please! Millions commute "over state lines" just to get to work every day.  This is a non-starter.[/quote]

I want to agree with you that this is all hyperbole and has no chance of ever happening. Five years ago, I would have. And yet, so much of the past several years has been a slow creep of what would have been unimaginable a decade ago. At this point it’s hard to rule out anything a decade or two from now and to dismiss posts like the one you replied to as impossible is how it happens. I don’t mean to single you out specifically, just that I’ve been thinking a lot in light of recent events about what I imagined as impossible and how hard it is to rule anything out now. [/quote]

Unfortunately I feel the same way.  So many things that I previously believed impossible have come to pass.  On the abortion front, these past few weeks have been truly shocking.  The pregnant 10 year old; doctors being told they can’t use their judgment to care for pregnant women; states criminalizing a woman crossing state lines to get an abortion.   I will no longer be told that I’m being hysterical.  I’m being realistic and we all need to start paying attention and fighting for our rights. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics