Tennessee bill targets adults who take minors out of state for abortion
thehill.com
The Tennessee legislature introduced a bill on Monday that targets adults who take minors out of the state to have an abortion.
The bill says that an adult who “recruits, harbors, or transports a pregnant unemancipated minor within this state for the purpose of” aiding them in getting access to actions that constitute “criminal abortion” under Tennessee law “commits the offense of abortion trafficking of a minor,” despite where the action occurs.
It also notes that it would not be a viable “defense to a prosecution” if the minor consented to actions.
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Making it illegal to take your kid to another state to do something that's legal in the other state? Huh. The Second Civil War is going to be fought over states' rights. Specifically, reproductive rights.
It's unconstitutional. Violates the Commerce clause.
And I don't see SCotUS reducing their power in that regard.
The local news had an elected leader on last night saying that this iteration of scotus is more supportive of states rights...
Granted he was talking about the state killing child rapists (which is unconstitutional by the scotus already) but they don't care.
4 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices don't think the Constitution grants the Federal Government access to an international border.
Full faith and credit seems a more direct violation than the commerce clause, though I'm sure both are implicated.
And? It isn't like the Supreme Court will care.
It'd be fun to ask these Tennessee legislators how they feel about Kyle "I'm a medic" Rittenhouse and his travel across state lines to protect private property using a not-straw-purchased firearm.
That of course it different. You are allowed to murder a living breathing human being, you are not allowed to end a clump of cells. As the good book teaches us
Truly the land of the free! 🤣