Experts Warn GOP War on Abortion Will Turn Red and Blue States Into 'Mutually Hostile Legal Territories'

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'The demise of Roe will exacerbate America's antagonisms, creating more furious legal rifts between states than we've seen in modern times.'

that"pills are going to be a major part of how people continue to get abortions after the Supreme Court rules, so I think that we'll see states trying to ban pills in all sorts of different ways."meant to shield doctors and patients.

Legal experts aren't sure how these types of interstate fights are going to play out, though Cohen toldMary Ziegler, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, told Goldberg that the closest parallels in U.S. history are fugitive slave laws"because there are not many times in history when states are trying to tell other states what to do in this way."

"The point," Goldberg wrote,"is not that abortion bans are comparable to slavery in a moral sense, but that they create potentially irreconcilable legal frameworks.":"Some legal scholars think any attempt to stop people from leaving the state for an abortion would be unlawful since the Constitution protects individual liberty and gives people the right to travel.

As Goldberg pointed out, reactionaries"have a plan for reconciling clashing abortion laws." Earlier this week, Republicans"At some point, there will almost certainly be a Republican president and a Republican Congress," wrote Goldberg."It's easy to imagine conservative activists demanding that their leaders jettison the filibuster in order to push through a national abortion ban.

 

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