This is the first time this has happened since Roe V. WadeAnd Doe v. BoltonThe law was made, the Moloch legions are on the move.
Why would I do that? Two critical events occurred in the Supreme Court’s last session. The Supreme Court accepted to hear the defense of the new Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. This is unusual because the Court had the option of going along with a Fifth Circuit decision striking down the law, it didn’t. It elected to take the case (Supreme Court Accepts a Mississippi Abortion Case That Seems Likely to Overturn Planned Parenthood vs. Casey), framing it as “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” The oral hearing went spectacularly bad for the pro-aborts. The second key event was the Supreme Court refusing to strike down the Texas “heartbeat law” and its unique enforcement mechanism (Supreme Court Humiliates Biden, Refuses to Stop Texas Heartbeat Law, and Gorsuch and the Wise Latina Have a Public Spat). A heated comment by the “dim-bulb Latina,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor (see Does Justice Sotomayor’s Intemperate Rant at Her Colleagues Indicate That She Knows Roe v. Wade Is About to Be Overturned?) Many people speculated that abortion is now a part of the “false constitutional right” Dred ScottAnd PlessyOn the dunghills and injustice.
We’re on the verge of achieving the victory that the Pro-Life movement has longed for since its inception. The federal constitution no longer guarantees abortion as a human right. Each state has the power to determine its own abortion policies. Abortion will be illegal in approximately half the country or restricted to certain areas. Roe v. Wade is a guideline for about half of the country, but we are free to choose some other states. Some states will continue to be child-sacrifice hotspots. California is one example. It has proposed subsidizing lodging and travel for pregnant women who are traveling to California to dismember their child. The legal status for abortion will, in short, be the one most people want.
Unfortunately, some people on our side can’t settle for victory.
Missouri lawmakers want to stop their residents from having abortions — even if they take place in another state.
The first-of-its-kind proposal would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident have an abortion — from the out-of-state physician who performs the procedure to whoever helps transport a person across state lines to a clinic, a major escalation in the national conservative push to restrict access to the procedure.
Mary Elizabeth Coleman (Republican state Representative) is pushing for the Missouri policy in multiple health bills. She said that it targets an Illinois Planned Parenthood Clinic just across from St. Louis. It opened in 2019 and was specifically designed to serve Missouri patients.
“If you believe as I do that every person deserves dignity and respect and protection whether they’re born or unborn, then of course you want to protect your citizens, no matter where they are,” Coleman told POLITICO. “If a Missouri resident is hurt, even in Illinois, by a product that they bought in Illinois, there is still jurisdiction for them to sue in a Missouri court because that’s home for them … and this is extending that same kind of thought to abortion jurisprudence.”
Missouri’s efforts put Missouri in the lead of a new wave of legislative action in state capitals, where conservatives race to pass legislation before a Supreme Court ruling which will either limit or reverse Roe v Wade.
It is currently on the legislative calendar so it can be voted upon anytime before May’s session. The legislation goes further than most abortion restrictions advancing across the country, and attempts to evade legal challenges by adopting the same private enforcement mechanism as Texas’ six-week abortion ban, which the Supreme Court has allowed to stay in place for the last six months. In both cases, a judge can award damages of up to $10,000 if the case is successful.
Let me tell you, this is what I see. Is it possible for a state to make illegal your participation in an activity which is allowed in another state. You could be arrested for going to Florida and not having proof of COVID vaccination if New York makes it a crime to enter restaurants. Can you be arrested for possessing pot in a state where “medicinal” marijuana is legal if your home state still outlaws it? The potential for mischief will be eliminated if the idea is implemented to keep women away from abortion-friendly states. California has already begun to take advantage of the Texas heartbeat law’s enforcement mechanism for gun sales.
The parts that Coleman suggests have unsightly echoes in the Fugitive Slave Act 1850. This Act allowed officials from states to be penalized for failing apprehend slaves escaping their jurisdiction.
Laws that prohibit minors from traveling across state borders for abortions without consent of parents are fine with me. This, for me, includes both parents. Virtual consultations and postal delivery of abortion pills should be banned by states. I’m 100% in favor of long prison terms for anyone participating in an abortion if the state has outlawed it. However, it is important to recognize that many people don’t believe abortion is wrong. The only way to change this is through education and not coercion. Unconstitutional laws which make women fleeing for abortions heroes or martyrs are not what we want. It is a terrible idea to think that any state government could force you to obey its laws if you travel across state lines. This goes against both principled and what it will do for individual rights.
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