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Antiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines
Washington Post ^ | June 30, 2022 | Caroline Kitchener and Devlin Barrett

Posted on 06/30/2022 9:49:16 AM PDT by C19fan

Several national antiabortion groups and their allies in Republican-led state legislatures are advancing plans to stop people in states where abortion is banned from seeking the procedure elsewhere, according to people involved in the discussions. The idea has gained momentum in some corners of the antiabortion movement in the days since the Supreme Court struck down its 49-year-old precedent protecting abortion rights nationwide, triggering abortion bans across much of the Southeast and Midwest.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; freedom; myobplease; prolife
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I am unaware of any state law that prohibits a private individual from cross state boundaries to partake in an activity legal in that state. No state I am aware of attempted to prohibit travel to Las Vegas for gambling. There is a reason that crimes that involve crossing state boundaries are the purview of the Federal Government. The Constitution is explicit in giving the Federal Government the power to regulate interstate commerce which would include people crossing state lines. The Pro-Life movement achieved a victory they worked for 50 years and they are already overreaching. This is frankly dangerous. California could prohibit private citizens traveling to sat Florida.
1 posted on 06/30/2022 9:49:16 AM PDT by C19fan
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Yes. Nothing like that is going to happen. Although CA has established the precedent of banning government travel to specific states it despises. They would be hard pressed to complain about that kind of restriction.


2 posted on 06/30/2022 9:52:49 AM PDT by Brilliant
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I call BS. Maybe some super-extreme anti-abortionists would attempt to find a way to learn motivations for travel, but it’s virtually impossible.

MSM is making sheeite up to smear anti-abortionists.


3 posted on 06/30/2022 9:54:26 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: C19fan

Any actual names of real people, or are they just making up some mid-term election propaganda? I’ve never heard of anyone wanting to chase after abortion-seekers who go out-of-state?


4 posted on 06/30/2022 9:55:04 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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sorry...but if this is true, its just crazy...lunacy.


5 posted on 06/30/2022 9:55:10 AM PDT by basalt ( in the irons....)
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To: C19fan

Can’t get past the demand to subscribe to the WaComPost. Do they list the groups and legislators that are trying to stop interstate travel?


6 posted on 06/30/2022 9:55:22 AM PDT by jeffc (Let's Go Brandon!)
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7 posted on 06/30/2022 9:57:07 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: chiller

This would be FEAR PORN, not at it’s best..but good.


8 posted on 06/30/2022 9:58:53 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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I wonder how many days it will be before this WaPo reporter is tossed under the bus for fabricating bs.


9 posted on 06/30/2022 10:00:37 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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“…has gained momentum in some corners…”

In some corners.

Ok. No. No sale.

In any case this was not what the court stated. It was a ruling on constitutional grounds

And does the WaPo mention how these “corners” were preventing people from traveling across state lines?

No. Preposterous.


10 posted on 06/30/2022 10:00:49 AM PDT by stanne
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To: C19fan

No such legislation has even been introduced in any state.


11 posted on 06/30/2022 10:02:18 AM PDT by circlecity
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Hmm, closest precedent law I can think of would be the “Mann Act”.
Crossing state lines for immoral purposes.
That would be a “Creative” interpretation.
But if they cross alone I do not see it applying even by the wildest stretch of application.


12 posted on 06/30/2022 10:02:46 AM PDT by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV groupthink!)
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To: Brilliant

WaPO fabricator could be stretching a legitimate question which may arise regarding states paying (ie. taxpayers) for transportation to/for abortions, in which case the reasons may be known beforehand.


13 posted on 06/30/2022 10:04:19 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: Ex gun maker.

The Mann Act is a federal law. States don’t have the ability to regulate interstate travel or commerce.


14 posted on 06/30/2022 10:05:03 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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That won’t go well at all. It’s the religious right that gets the whole of the right labeled as crazy Christians. They would have women with life-threatening birth complications die instead of aborting the fetus that will lead to their death.


15 posted on 06/30/2022 10:07:41 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Just the Compost lying again, trying to gin upenerate anger in the Democrat Party for the midterm elections.


16 posted on 06/30/2022 10:09:40 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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The Mann Act is a federal law. States don’t have the ability to regulate interstate travel or commerce.

I don't think it would pass Constitutional review either.

17 posted on 06/30/2022 10:11:03 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: wastedyears

absolutely true statement.


18 posted on 06/30/2022 10:11:57 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hot fun in the summertime! thanks rjo.)
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To: C19fan

Correct. Not going to happen.


19 posted on 06/30/2022 10:14:41 AM PDT by fruser1
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The democrats lost the upper hand on the abortion issue by not being satisfied with their “safe, legal and rare” policy and constantly pushing the radical extreme up to killing live babies.

If the anti-abortion forces push unreasonable extreme policies they will meet the same fate and endanger the gains we have achieved.


20 posted on 06/30/2022 10:15:37 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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