People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.
How long before they start proposing to build a wall around the state and make the neighboring states pay for it?
@Blort @georgetakei Or requiring all drivers to stop at checkpoints, present their papers, and reasons for traveling out of state. Reasons which would have to be registered with the state in a beurocracy that would, by comparison, make the DMV seem easy to navigate.
@TechyDad @Blort @georgetakei I can imagine mandatory pregnancy tests at state border checkpoints and just a general prohibition of traveling out of state for pregnant women in the theocratic states
@lanzz and if you add in all the "constitutional sheriffs" operating in these states, it's a recipe for terrorizing women of reproductive age driving to anything but a church service.