Some #states are even exploring options to potentially prosecute people who help #women travel out of state to obtain an #abortion.
In the early #legal skirmishing over this agenda, opponents including the federal #DOJ have won a surprising number of decisions, mostly in #FederalCourt, blocking #states from implementing the new #laws.
But eventually most of these issues are likely to be resolved by #SCOTUS, & the court’s 6-member #Republican-appointed majority has generally ruled in ways that favor the #conservative#social-policy priorities reflected in the #redstate actions. That inclination was most dramatically demonstrated in last year’s #Dobbs decision, when the Court overturned the #constitutional#right to #abortion.
In the coming years, #SCOTUS will face a series of decisions on the new #redstate#agenda that may determine whether the U.S. maintains a strong baseline of #CivilRights available in all #states or reverts back toward a pre-1960s world where people’s #rights varied much more depending on where they lived.
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