Peter Breen said “Just because you jump across a state line doesn’t mean your home state doesn’t have jurisdiction.” Which is not true unless the federal government enacts a “Fugitive Slave Act” against women, — ya’ know — women, their slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 passed in response to free-state laws giving safe harbor to slaves who escaped from southern states. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required the arrest of people who helped slaves gain freedom, and punished authorities in free states who would not make arrests, and also required that slaves be recaptured and returned to slave states.
Please let that sink in.
Now replace “slave” with women.
In 1790, all states finally ratified the US Constitution. The Constitution’s Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3 required the return of escaped slaves to their slave-state. A few years later, to combat slaves escaping to free states, the first Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 became a federal law and required authorities in free states to return fugitives slaves to their ‘owners.’
In 1850, Senator James Mason decided that too many slaves were still escaping slavery and going to free states so he wrote the second Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that mandated arrests for anyone helping a slave get to a free-state, punished authorities in free-states who would not make arrests, and required the return of slaves to their owners. That “Act” is what gave rise to the underground railroad.
Even though the Constitution does not mention the word “travel” even Brett Kavanaugh had to admit that women who live in slave-states can travel to free-states for an abortion.
“For example, may a State bar a resident of that State from traveling to another State to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no based on the constitutional right to interstate travel.”
But, we all know Brett Kavanaugh is not smart, not qualified, and has no spine. Women sure as hell can’t count on Kavanaugh to protect their right to interstate travel.
Women were the last to gain their right to vote and the first to lose their their 14th Amendment rights.
I have said for years that forcing women to stay pregnant and give birth against her will and for no pay, is slavery. None of the slave-states are paying for their female-slave’s pre-natal care or hospital care and none are compensating their female-slaves for remaining pregnant & giving birth against her will.
Now religious zealots want the slave-states to enact a Fugitive Women Act that will mandated arrests for anyone helping a women get to a free-state for an abortion and require the return of those women to her ‘owners.
This is not a drill people. It’s really happening.
Earlier this year, Lawmakers in Missouri state rep. Mary Coleman backed legislative to ban women from traveling out of state for abortions and to permit any citizen to sue anyone in a blue state who helped a woman attain one.
I don’t know the answer to stopping the current political hacks on the Supreme Court from gutting the 14th Amendment & shredding the Constitution. But sure hope someone does.