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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right-wing states always try to imprison their residents in the 19th Century but they can’t stop people from traveling to other states. States made it hard to get married and harder to get divorced so Nevada created a whole economy as an elopement and quick divorce destination. Other states couldn't prevent their residents from going to Nevada and had to accept Nevada marriages and divorces. 
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Sure, but those were individual people making individual decisions for themselves. The state will say that the fetus is not able to make a decision for itself to leave the state and become aborted.

If an embryo gets personhood status, a woman could leave the state but she would have to leave the embryo behind. Which she can’t do, so she’s stuck in the state until the embryo is out of her body. And they won’t allow her to abort the pregnancy in that state because the embryo has personhood status. And they won’t allow her to move her body containing the embryo into another state because that embryo has personhood status and is protected. So effectively the woman is stuck in the state.[/quote]

In response to the dissent, Alito added this little gem to the final opinion (wasn't in the draft):

[quote]“According to the dissent, the Constitution requires the states to regard a fetus as lacking even the most basic human right—to live—at least until an arbitrary point in a pregnancy has passed. Nothing in the Constitution or in our Nation’s legal traditions authorizes the Court to adopt that ‘theory of life.’”[/quote]

So, yes, it's definitely possible that Court would uphold fetal personhood laws, and then guess what? It would be like the Fugitive Slave Laws, where states exerted jurisdiction over people in other states (except this time it would fetuses in pregnant women's bodies).

Good discussion here in the WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/07/14/what-pre-civil-war-history-tells-us-about-coming-abortion-battle/[/quote]

So in other words, if you’re a liberal living in Arkansas, it might be a good idea to take that job offer in Connecticut and get the hell out?[/quote]

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