Biden's new move on abortion hints at big red-vs.-blue battles ahead

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Right now, anti-choice activists and red state politicians are examining how to criminalize efforts to seek abortion across state lines.

Here's a good explanation from law prof @LeahLitman on how this might work and why Biden's executive order may help:

https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/08/biden-executive-order-abortion-fugitive-moms-acts/…
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11:02 AM · Jul 8, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/08/biden-executive-order-abortion-fugitive-moms-acts/

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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, President Biden has faced intense pressure to use federal power to protect abortion rights. And on Friday, the White House announced an executive order that takes a serious step in that direction.

That’s good news, but buried in the order are provisions that hint at looming troubles in our evolving national battle over abortion. It’s a story in which red states pursue women seeking abortions across state lines, which may become common in our Brave New Post-Roe World.

If states will essentially be at war over abortion rights — with red states not just racing to pass ever-more-punitive bans but also reaching across state lines to target quarry, and blue states mounting defenses against that — then federal power may be applied to mediate. A big question is what that will look like in coming years.

In a sense, Biden’s executive order begins mapping out that unknown territory. It will reportedly safeguard access to various types of reproductive health care, promote safety of patients and providers, and marshal coordination across federal agencies in defense of abortion rights wherever possible.

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[Phoenix61]

1. Good luck reaching across state lines. Gambling is

illegal in lots of places but no o e ever got arrested for going to Biloxi or Vegas. How many young people have crossed state lines to get married and no one got arrested then either.

[hlthe2b]

2. Yeah, and state patrol for NE and KS can wait at the border with CO to stop cars

they suspect have traveled to CO to avail themselves of a weekend of pot tourism, but unless they bring it back, there is not a damned thing they can do. Of course, they can harass motorists, but these a'holes get to sit out in the 100 F sun to do so.

[Lovie777]

4. I've read that rwers want pregnancy sniffing dogs at every traveling locations . . .

[roamer65]

5. I want RW'er sniffing dogs.

So we can sniff out RW’ers to round them up for the re-education camps.

[Lovie777]

3. I'm pretty sure that was a given about blue v red states ......

terrorizing women, poc and Jews is also in rwers agenda.

[blue-wave]

6. I'm not an expert on this set of laws but

I would venture to guess the Interstate Commerce Laws would stand in the republiCons way.

[Irish_Dem]

7. GOP will harass, bully, intimidate, frighten women by any means possible.

Even if some of their laws get struck down, damage is done.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. We've been in big red vs blue battles for years. It will escalate.