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In reply to the discussion: A new Missouri bill would prohibit women leaving the state to get an abortion. [View all]Harker
(14,223 posts)74. Checkpoints. Barbed wire. Mean dogs.
Or maybe they'll use the Texas model, asking the citizenry to rat each other out for money.
It's nuts.
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A new Missouri bill would prohibit women leaving the state to get an abortion. [View all]
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
OP
If this passes, then states could pass laws that you can't get any medical treatment out of state.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2022
#24
This is true. If the civil lawsuit dodge starts to get enforced and upheld it means
localroger
Mar 2022
#87
That is a good point. But I can't help wonder if the fact that these are extreme measures...
Demsrule86
Mar 2022
#127
Next bill up for consideration, shackling pregnant women to poles so they can't leave
SoonerPride
Mar 2022
#2
Imagine the surveillance state that would be needed to track women's every movement.
Lonestarblue
Mar 2022
#53
How long before women need travel passes & justified reasons to go anywhere? -nt
CrispyQ
Mar 2022
#9
What kind of society is it that produces groups of people who not only misread the room
DFW
Mar 2022
#10
Women will have to present a negative pregnancy test to cross the state line?
Irish_Dem
Mar 2022
#11
Red states are passing truly vicious anti-abortion laws, in anticipation of a 9-3 SCOTUS upholding...
Hekate
Mar 2022
#80
Women in any of the shitty red states should not tell ANYONE of a pregnancy...no one.
PortTack
Mar 2022
#19
Are you aware that when you purchase a home pregnancy test using a store "club" or discount card...
Hekate
Mar 2022
#82
If it comes to that we've got a lot more to worry about...with all that's going on right now, that
PortTack
Mar 2022
#96
Within our borders we have to worry about voting rights (subjugating black Americans) and ...
Hekate
Mar 2022
#99
Missouri GOP are no better than the Gestapo if this gets passed and signed into law..
ProudMNDemocrat
Mar 2022
#20
It wouldn't work that way; these laws are enabling civil lawsuits, not 'law enforcement'
localroger
Mar 2022
#83
Maybe that's why when I called before 5pm it went to voicemail. They are probably getting a lot of
Maraya1969
Mar 2022
#111
Someone doing this against someone as a $ vendetta, or just because they "can" is likely going to be
hlthe2b
Mar 2022
#29
"What do they think is going to be the outcome of such ridiculous legislation?"
Mariana
Mar 2022
#119
Aren't these the members of the same party that calls mask and vaccine mandates "tyranny"?
lees1975
Mar 2022
#62
Women must watch Handmaid's Tale. But it could never happen here. It's happening!
Pepsidog
Mar 2022
#67
I am trying to understand why MO thinks it has jurisdiction in other states. nt
Gore1FL
Mar 2022
#69
How does the SCOTUS just let the Texas bounty-hunter legislation slide into actuality?
Hekate
Mar 2022
#117
We shall see. The far-right-wing has told us who they are, & we should believe them. nt
Hekate
Mar 2022
#124
What a ROTTEN FUCKING WORLD it is becoming with these authoritarian FUCKS
Stinky The Clown
Mar 2022
#91