Missouri Republican pitches new law to stop women from traveling out of state to get abortions

[Soph0571]

An anti-abortion GOP lawmaker in Missouri, a state which passed one of the country’s strictest abortion laws in back 2019, says she has a solution to to the problem of people traveling out of state for abortions, The Washington Post reports.

"An unusual new provision, introduced by state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R), would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident obtain an abortion out of state, using the novel legal strategy behind the restrictive law in Texas that since September has banned abortions in that state after six weeks of pregnancy," reports the Post. "Coleman has attached the measure as an amendment to several abortion-related bills that have made it through committee and are waiting to be heard on the floor of the House of Representatives."

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/missouri-abortion-law/|]
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Under his eye

[bif]

1. Can you say "Police State"?

Wow.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. These are the party of freedumbs

The authority and desire to interfere with other people's personal privacy is pervasive with these kooks. I'm wondering if some stand your ground laws are going to clash with these restrictions on health care freedom.

[captain queeg]

3. WTF is the matter with these people.

I’d think maybe a law to disallow stock trades, dark money political contributions, etc would be a better use of these idiots’ time.

[XanaDUer2]

4. And how will they know why

They're traveling out of state?

[bhikkhu]

24. Ankle bracelets with your first prenatal checkup are next

I'd guess. Though probably shouldn't give them ideas...

[CurtEastPoint]

5. A WOMAN WROTE THIS BILL! And that image is EXACTLY what I was picturing before I even saw it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Enemies of the human race. And they need to be treated accordingly.

[Me.]

7. Legal Fail

[ratchiweenie]

14. Agreed. Good luck suing someone for doing something in another state where what they are doing

is not a crime. These people are really, really, really, stupid and ignorant of the law.

[Moostache]

8. I plan to sue EVERY republican in the state as accessories to abortion

I don't care how many are guilty or not, I want my $10,000 bounty money...I GUARANTEE that there is more than ONE Rethug bastard who will be guilty of paying to make an unwanted "indiscretion" go away by transporting a pregnant woman across state lines to have an abortion.

Fuck these crusading assholes.

I also want a new law that provides the names and addresses of EVERYONE who ever turns someone in for violations of this excremental 'law'/idea and cross-referenced publication of the number of adopted children they have. Fucking hyporcrites. They are all cordially invited to suck my ass.

[XacerbatedDem]

19. Great idea.

Sue them all for helping to motivate people to leave Mo for an abortion by passing such a law in the first place.

"Fucking hypocrites." Exactly!

[Ocelot II]

9. It's absolutely unconstitutional per the 14th Amendment's Privileges or Immunities Clause,

addressed as recently as 1999 in Saenz v. Roe, where the court held that there are several aspects to the right to travel, including the right to enter one state and leave another (an inherent right with historical support from the Articles of Confederation).

Of course, they're trying to avoid that little problem by giving private parties the right to sue, as in the Texas abortion statute. I wonder if they'd try to make it illegal to move to another state, too?

[LT Barclay]

21. Since you brought this up can you tell me how this would apply to child custody arrangements?

I keep arguing with my sister because she believes that the custody agreement prohibits her from moving to another state and I say there is no way that would be legal as long as she wasn’t just moving to keep the father from seeing the child and is willing to pay 40% of transportation?

[TomSlick]

22. Your sister needs to consult a lawyer in the jurisdiction.

How states deal with the balance between the right to travel and the noncustodial parent's rights vary from state to state.

[Sogo]

10. Someone needs to tell these people to

mind their own damn business. A-holes!!

[Girard442]

11. What's wrong with this logic:

The State of Missouri cannot constitutionally ban people from attending a Southern Baptist or a Roman Catholic Church, but could it pass a law empowering private citizens to sue for up to $10,000 anyone credibly accused of attending those churches?

[budkin]

12. Another post here with a different article

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16458351

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Idaho is trying the same stunt for treating trans children with needed treatments

Link to tweet

[keithbvadu2]

15. It's not illegal to take a woman on vacation.

It's not illegal to take a woman on vacation.

She might decide on her own to get an abortion after she gets there.

[Volaris]

16. Itll only be legal for them to go on vacation to places where abortions illegal...

You'll have to check in with the Pregnancy Probation Officer.

[EleanorR]

17. Incentivizing people to turn on each other

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. This is going to be a big (legal) fight in a post-Roe world

Link to tweet

[Martin68]

20. It is heartwarming how hard conservatives work to defend our "freedoms."

[Turbineguy]

23. Yeah, 'cuz....

we miss the Soviet Union and want to be jest like them.