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How Red States Plan to Reach Beyond Their Borders and Outlaw Abortion in America

Today’s anti-abortion movement has even proposed new laws that prevent people from crossing state lines to terminate a pregnancy. Republicans in Missouri are considering such legislation right now. Under the statute, Missouri’s citizens could sue doctors who perform an abortion on a Missouri resident in a different state—like neighboring Illinois, whose clinics serve countless Missourians. Missouri’s citizens could also sue anyone who facilitated the abortion, including the friend or family member who transported the patient across state lines. Similarly, in 2019, Georgia Republicans passed a sweeping law that appeared to impose criminal penalties on patients who traveled out of state for an abortion. The courts have put that law on hold, but the state may commence enforcement after Roe is overturned.

Is any of this legal? There is no way to say. The Supreme Court has never addressed whether states can bar their residents from traveling to another state to obtain a medical procedure, or punish out-of-state physicians who perform that procedure. When the Supreme Court refused to halt Texas’ S.B. 8 this fall, it signaled to other states that it would not halt creative schemes to nullify Roe. In December, during oral arguments in a case designed to overturn Roe, several justices all but announced that they will let states regulate abortion however they wish.

Jessie Hill, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, told me that “these sorts of attempts by states to regulate activity beyond their borders seem to directly contradict our most basic understandings about federalism and U.S. citizenship.” But, she added, “states are not always forbidden to regulate in ways that have an extraterritorial effect.” They may “have a strong argument that they are entitled to enforce their laws with respect to their own citizens.”

Here’s where the new goals of the anti-abortion movement matter most. If fetuses are legal “citizens,” then states could argue that they must be protected from out-of-state abortion providers. A red state might order a blue state to extradite an abortion provider (or patient) within its borders, dragging the judiciary into “complex, uncharted territory.” Or a red state could threaten to prosecute any provider who stepped inside its borders. Hill also pointed out that the Constitution also requires states to give “full faith and credit” to the judgments of other states’ courts. So if a Missouri court orders an Illinois doctor to pay damages for terminating a fetus from Missouri, the Illinois courts are, in theory, obligated to make him pay up.



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Marvel's 'Eternals,' 'Hawkeye' Earn Recognition for Disability Representation

Marvel Studios has received another honor, thanks to two of its superheroes.

Chloe Zhao’s Eternals and Disney+ series Hawkeye have each earned the Seal of Authentic Representation from the Ruderman Family Foundation, which advocates for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in society. The Seal recognizes movies and television shows that feature actors with disabilities in roles with at least five lines of dialogue.

Both Eternals‘ Makkari (Lauren Ridloff) and Hawkeye‘s Echo (Alaqua Cox) are superpowered individuals who also have disabilities.

“Makkari is full of heart and wisdom. She is strong, charismatic, mysterious and mischievous. We are very lucky to have found Lauren Ridloff, who is our real-life Makkari!” Zhao said in a statement. “She has brought this character to life with love and conviction and has taught us so much in the process.”

Ridloff and Cox are both deaf, and the latter additionally is an amputee who uses a prosthetic leg.






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NE-GOV: Trump-Backed Candidate for Guv Accused of Groping Women at Political Events

A Republican candidate in Nebraska’s gubernatorial race who won an endorsement from Donald Trump has been accused of groping at least eight women at political events and beauty pageants. Republican State Sen. Julie Slama is among the women to come forward about Charles Herbster—currently the frontrunner in the state’s primary race—allegedly touching her inappropriately, according to the Nebraska Examiner. She told the newspaper Herbster reached up her skirt and grabbed her at an event in 2019 for the Douglas County Republican Party. Six other women alleged that Herbster had also touched them inappropriately, often doing so as they posed for photographs or greeted him. Another woman accused him of cornering her before forcing a kiss on her. All of the women, except for Slama, spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying they feared retaliation. “I’m scared for any young women that he would be dealing with in the future. Don’t send your daughters to work for this guy,” one of the women was quoted as telling the Examiner. Herbster, through his campaign manager Ellen Keast, “unequivocally” denied the allegations and described them as a “political hit-piece built on 100% false and baseless claims.”





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