Where Things Stand: Blue States Prepare To Deal With Red States' Various Horror Shows

[Nevilledog]

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All signs continue to point to SCOTUS issuing a ruling this summer that could dismantle Roe, tossing the decision of whether or not individuals can obtain abortions into the salivating hands of Republican state elected officials.

SCOTUS’ repeated punts on Texas’ unprecedentedly dangerous abortion law signaled just how antagonist the current court is toward the 1973 precedent. And the copy-cat bills emerging out of GOP-led states in the weeks and months since have signaled what’s to come as the nation heads into a new dystopian reality — one in which your right to an abortion will largely depend on the state in which you live, and the states your state neighbors.

As Kate Riga reported last week, Idaho became the first state to pass a six-week abortion ban that largely mirrors the most concerning aspects of the bounty-hunting, Wild West components of the Texas law, and Missouri Republicans are working on crafting something similar, but — potentially — with a special twist. Missouri state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R) recently proposed an amendment to her state’s legislation that would allow those greedy enough to sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion successfully file suit even if the procedure was done in a different state.

That effort — Republican elected officials seeking to control what their constituents do even outside of their home state — is a maddening and concerning trend that researchers warn could spread, both when it comes to abortion access and on other, more recent right-wing fixations, such as trans rights.

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[albacore]

1. Blue states have been carrying the financial load of governance and social safety-net spending...

...for decades. Now we have to pick up the costs - financial and human - of the Back-to-the-13th-Century movement that is the Republican Party. To ignore those needs would make blue states complicit.

[rickford66]

2. Can Blue states do the same with weapon background checks ?