[alkibiades]

or they can take a 1 hour flight on southwest for like 50 bucks.

[consumer451]

And then return home to a state where much of the populace, and the government consider them to be actual murderers.

Also, depending on the county they live in, anyone who helps them leave the state to have the medically required abortion may be breaking the law. Would this include the reservation agent at the airline? Sounds like it would.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/us/texas-abortion-travel-...

[Buttons840]

The eventual court cases over whether going to another state to do something legal is in fact illegal in your current state will be sad and interesting.

[sjtgraham]

Likely unconstitutional for a number of reasons: - the constitution guarantees freedom of movement within the states. - the dormant commerce clause prohibits states from passing legislation that improperly burdens or discriminates against interstate commerce - states cannot pass laws with extraterritorial jurisdiction. The constitution establishes a federal system in which states have sovereignty within their own borders but cannot exert authority in other states.

[devonkim]

I’m going to go on a limb and say that a fetus will be counted under interstate commerce jurisdiction of the US Constitution so there will be a federal law level decision on whether abortion is illegal or not if one doesn’t exist already. Because then I’d imagine that supremacy clause means that states actually do not have the right to restrict procedures like abortions either.

[cachecrab]

Sure, just have an ectopic pregnancy at 30,000 feet instead

[paxys]

"Emergency healthcare is just a flight to a neighboring state away, and you may be prosecuted when you get back" isn’t as much of a sell as you think it is.