Missouri lawmakers want to stop their residents from having abortions — even if they take place in another state.
The first-of-its-kind proposal would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a Missouri resident have an abortion — from the out-of-state physician who performs the procedure to whoever helps transport a person across state lines to a clinic, a major escalation in the national conservative push to restrict access to the procedure.
one of their citizens,” said David Cohen, a professor of law at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law and co-author of a forthcoming paper in the Columbia Law Review on impending interstate conflicts in abortion law. “What these laws are doing is saying, ‘We have a different understanding of how America works, and that understanding is that if you live in this state, we control you everywhere you are.
“We’ve had the benefit of seeing for six months now what an almost abortion-free state could look like,” she said. “But we know women are still going out of state, or worse, illegally obtaining medical abortion pills. The Missouri model would essentially close those loopholes.” The anti-abortion-rights activists and elected officials favoring the policies argue they can’t achieve their goal of eliminating all abortion without deterring travel across state lines, and say they are responding to progressive advocates who are raising money to help people terminate a pregnancy in another state.
The conservative effort has also led legislators in Democrat-controlled states to draft countermeasures aimed at protecting in-state physicians who provide abortions and those who help people cross state lines. These measures also provide legal protections to the pregnant person, though Coleman’s proposal doesn’t allow the patient to be sued.
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