Alabama Cannot Prosecute Out of State Abortions


Hopefully, this rational decision will stand. It is that the State Government of Alabama cannot prosecute those who pay travel expenses of women for out of state abortions. Several organizations are raising huge amounts of money to help women in these backwards states.  

While certainly I'm not an expert on law and the Constitution, one hallmark I've understood to exist is that legal commercial business between states is to be permitted. In fact, the Constitutional Convention in 1787 came about because of letters between George Washington and John Madison both were disgusted with the colonies charging tariffs on goods coming into one colony from another. The emotional opposition to abortion blinds otherwise rational people into irrational votes and behavior.

In other countries, opposition to abortion bans melted away when women went elsewhere to get abortions. This happened in Catholic Ireland where abortions were illegal but women got abortions in England. It happened in Chili for the same reason. 

The entire thingy of abortion bans will inevitably come to an end in the South when white politicians began to count votes. Data shows the woman most often forced to give birth because they cannot pay for travel are poor black women who live the greatest distance from a state border. In time, white Republicans will began to count votes. More black babies mean the politics will change. "Why don't we just admit," white politicians will say, "these sinful women just get abortions anyway and Godly laws don't stop them."  

I send money to abortion rights groups who then pay for out of state travel. Every dollar moves us closer to abortion rights in every state.

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