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Missouri Is Eyeing a Ban on Abortion Beyond its Borders. It's Happened Before.
Legal scholars have debated whether a Missouri provision that would extend an abortion ban beyond its borders is constitutional. There’s precedent for it in the state.
By Kaia Hubbard
|March 24, 2022, at 3:10 p.m.
An unusual new legislative proposal in Missouri that aims to prevent its citizens from seeking an abortion – even across state lines – has drawn questions over its constitutionality. But perhaps the most striking thing about the idea is that it isn't really very new at all.
State lawmakers more than 15 years ago passed a law that effectively did the same thing but was limited to minors, creating a civil cause of action against anyone who helped a Missouri minor obtain an abortion out of state without a parent or judge’s approval.
The new Missouri provision, which could be heard on the House floor as soon as this week, takes things a step further and would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident get an abortion in another state using a Texas-style mechanism that at least a dozen states have tried to copy in recent months in one way or another, deputizing private citizens to enforce a law.
Texas’s law has been in effect since September and has since become the strictest abortion policy in the nation, banning abortion beyond six weeks of pregnancy and flouting standards established in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade in the process. Missouri’s new proposal takes a cue from the Texas rule. And like the Lone Star State’s law, it’s drawn questions over its constitutionality.
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https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-03-24/the-model-for-missouris-plan-to-ban-abortion-beyond-its-borders
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