Re:The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world
by sandworm101 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:53PM
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>> do they ban providing the service within the state, or does it ban having the procedure anywhere at all?
States have substantial powers in this area. If they declare the unborn to be a "person" then they can do things to protect those people from being removed from the state. Some are talking about charging women with murder should they travel to another state for an abortion. The rules about people moving between states to take advantage of different laws are very old. They go to slavery and allowing or not allowing people to move between slave and free states. Similarly, the rules governing how and when people are extradited between states go back that far too. We could soon see states like New York refusing to extradite women charged with an abortion-related offenses. This would mirror very old cases of escaped slaves not being returned.
States have substantial powers in this area. If they declare the unborn to be a "person" then they can do things to protect those people from being removed from the state. Some are talking about charging women with murder should they travel to another state for an abortion. The rules about people moving between states to take advantage of different laws are very old. They go to slavery and allowing or not allowing people to move between slave and free states. Similarly, the rules governing how and when people are extradited between states go back that far too. We could soon see states like New York refusing to extradite women charged with an abortion-related offenses. This would mirror very old cases of escaped slaves not being returned.