Pregnant Women Receiving Telemedicine, Don't Disclose Where They Live


Can a doctor in New York City be prosecuted for providing telemedicine to a woman in Texas if he does not know she is in Texas?  That is the kind of gray legal area abortion providers are pushing into in order to care for patients. According to the link, it presents a time-consuming dilemma for police. Police do not have the resources to prosecute hundreds, maybe thousands, of women at the same time.

I've followed the several ways abortions are being performed, abortion pills delivered and information on both is made available. The money being invested in making abortion available has surprised many, including me. That though I have sent a few thousand dollars to groups doing this work.

How did we get to a place where politicians have been elected who hold views not held by the majority? It seems to me the best thing that happened to anti abortion was states drawing district lines according to how it benefits the political party, Republican, in many states. The people elected from these districts are from the fringes of political thinking. It seems like evidence of this was the statewide vote in Kansas to make abortions legal. Kansas has lots of politicians parading around claiming abortion is unpopular there. Now some are taking anti abortion off of their websites.

I don't claim lots of knowledge about U. S. law, but I know there is to be quite a bit of freedom of speech. There is, or has been, strong defense of interstate commerce. I've read freedom of interstate commerce was the principle reason George Washington and James Madison organized the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was so they could sell the whiskey and other products in other states. It seems like this principle will help maintain the ability to have abortions in states other than where a woman lives.

Whatever the legal issues, I make the blanket statement there is not enough law enforcement in the U.S. to stop abortions.

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  1. Ardy BSeptember 14, 2022 at 6:11 AM

    Jon, what’s the latest on the effectiveness of the Texas anti-abortion vigilante justice scheme?

    Some say it’s crafty of the politicians in state government to pass a law that outsources its enforcement to bounty hunters thereby shielding the typical state enforcers from being named in suits by abortion rights activists trying to remedy the law. Crafty or cowardly?

    Hopefully it won’t be long until some self-righteous Texas anti-abortion bounty hunter brings a case against someone, loses and gets countersued along with their accomplices into abject poverty.

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2022 at 6:39 AM

      Ardy B "latest on the effectiveness of the Texas anti-abortion vigilante justice scheme?" I suppose there are people in medicine who know a lot about what is going on but the rest of us don't know much. Just like we didn't learn what was going on in the underground abortion world before Roe that was made know only later. There was a huge underground system of performing abortions, some done by skilled and conscientious people, other done by good doctors employed by the mafia and yet other do-it-yourselfers who caused infections and filled wings of hospitals with young women recovering. I can imagine there are secret You Tube videos everywhere today providing more information than there was pre Roe. In my mind, the question is whether Texas/Mississippi will be changed by the courts or by voters. By this time next year we will have lots of publicly available information about numbers of births in Texas and abortions in states around Texas. An interesting year lies in front of us, that's for sure.

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