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.
The Thomas More Society, a conservative legal organization, is drafting model legislation for state lawmakers that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a resident of a state that has banned abortion from terminating a pregnancy outside of that state. The draft language will borrow from the novel legal strategy behind a Texas abortion ban enacted last year in which private citizens were empowered to enforce the law through civil litigation.
The subject was much discussed at two national antiabortion conferences last weekend, with several lawmakers interested in introducing these kinds of bills in their […]
Because American officials, both Federal and State, have not been held accountable for their multiple policy failures over the decades from Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, the War on Drugs, Tough on Crime, etc they have refused to learn the lessons of the limits of power. In fact these debacles have been very profitable for the few at the expense of the many. This will be no different as the outlawing of abortion will create an underground network similar to that of drug users. We will experience the same sad outcomes. How many decades it will take for us to realize the lessons of this remains to be seen.