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[quote=Anonymous][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?

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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]

If personhood begins at conception though, women could be smuggling people over state borders all the time.[/quote]

Do you honestly believe this is the direction red states are going? [/quote]

Texas is challenging the federal law allowing abortion to save the mother’s life. The way some of the anti abortion laws are written, they would get rid of some birth control and IVF-whether that’s because people want to eliminate these options or because they’re too stupid to understand consequences, I can’t say. States are trying to make it hard for women to go out of state for abortion, and want to punish someone if not the women seeking abortion. Women are being arrested for miscarriages. A federal agency was tracking women’s cycles while they were detained and withholding medical care in order to force them to carry out their pregnancies. A 10yo had to travel out of state for an abortion after being raped, and someone who helps craft anti abortion laws lied to Congress saying that wasn’t an abortion. The Supreme Court says a lot of rights might not be rights. The man who authored the TX abortion law is now involved in a lawsuit against PrEP because it promotes homosexuality. They’re literally burning books at school board meetings.

Where do you think the line is, PP? I used to think things like, they can’t take away abortion rights, or of course no one’s going to storm the capitol to try to prevent a peaceful transfer of power, or the sky won’t turn orange instead of blue. But now I’ve lived through all those things. These states are showing us what they want to do. I don’t know where the line is, but some states are trying to make it illegal for women to cross state lines to get healthcare. I don’t know how far they’ll go to achieve that goal, but they’ve already fooled me once and I’m not eager to go for twice. [/quote]

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