In Poland, Testing Women for Abortion Drugs Is a Reality. It Could Happen Here.

[ShazzieB]

2. It's just a question of when.

There are states right now that want to prosecute women for traveling to another state to have an abortion that's completely legal there. This isn't a very far leap from that.

I always thought states had the right to decide what's legal within their borders, not what people do when they're somewhere else. Now there seems to be a growing number of (red) states that think they should be able to regulate the personal lives of their residents no matter where they happen to be at any given moment. It's absolute b.s., of course, but that won't keep them from trying.

If these states are going to be that controlling, we're not that far from seeing them set up pregnancy databases and mandatory pregnancy testing ptograms for all women from puberty to menopause. Testing for abortificient drugs is something I'm sure a lot of the would jump right on.

The idea of any branch of government at any level meddling in the lives of "private" citizens to the extent these states want to do is repugnant to me and should be repugnant to any American, imo. It's alarming how many don't seem to see it that way!