According to the Chicago Tribune, “The 2019 data shows a rise in both the number of in-state women terminating a pregnancy as well as those traveling to Illinois from other states for the procedure.” Once SCOTUS effectively kills Roe next year, the next goal will be to criminalize the movement of women in states where abortion is illegal to other states to undergo the procedure legally. Mark my words, f***tards! You can take this next step to the bank as I’ve already written about this. Whatever legal precedent may already exist to protect women from traveling between states to get an abortion will most certainly be challenged and overturned by this ultra-conservative SCOTUS. Does anyone really think SCOTUS is going to stop the onslaught against women’s reproductive rights by overturning Roe only? Mark my words and mark them well.
Getting rid of Roe is just the first step. Naturally, I suspect Democrats are utterly clueless about what comes next — those idiots are still convinced Roe is safe, which is why they are doing nothing to change SCOTUS. Eh, it’s just business as usual for dumbass Democrats! So, on 30 June 2022 — the last scheduled day of SCOTUS’ 2021-22 term or there about — the opinion will come down, effectively killing Roe by claiming states can, indeed, lower the cutoff below the 20-week viability threshold. The argument will be, no doubt, that states have a “new” compelling interest over a woman’s body, which will be bolstered by Scalia’s enduring proclamation that there is no Constitutional right to an abortion. If that becomes the controlling argument of the majority opinion to weaken Roe, then watch the f*** out, morons. Think about all those rights “not” in the Constitution. Then every minority is f***ed. But whatever! No one cares, let alone possesses the ability to think that far in advance, given America’s immediate, shiny-objects-only mentality. But I digress.
Then comes the state laws that criminalize women traveling out of state for abortions. As Slate points out in the Georgia House Bill 481, “Even women who seek lawful abortions out of state may not escape punishment. If a Georgia resident plans to travel elsewhere to obtain an abortion, she may be charged with conspiracy to commit murder, punishable by 10 years’ imprisonment.” So, the groundwork is already being laid and tested. RepubliKKKlans have never been subtle about their intentions, but dumbass Democrats are pretty f***ing good at ignoring them to their detriment. For the extreme nerd, peruse this legal scholarly article on abortion. A key passage reads: “If the Court [SCOTUS] defers to the state of origin in viewing the fetus as not simply a ‘potential’ but an ‘actual’ person [which some RepubliKKKlan states have already done], the ‘home’ state might have an interest in fetal well-being sufficient to extend its prescriptive jurisdiction to the conduct of its citizens in other states.” In other words, conservative states may very well have a sound legal interest to pursue protecting “actual” life outside their borders, and SCOTUS may agree. Although this article was written in 1992, the author makes the argument that extraterritorial state regulation (i.e., states enforcing their laws outside of their borders “that would seek to limit their citizens’ abilities to take advantage of such options [abotions]” in other states) is fundamentally constrained by “federal structure and the constitutional commitment to national citizenship.” Fast forward 30 years, and with the present makeup of SCOTUS, I think there is little doubt his argument is no longer as valid as he would have believed them to be back then. Hence, the article becomes an instructive roadmap for how conservative justices could navigate around such “constraints.” Or, more precisely, the justices are already aware of such a roadmap; thus, the article becomes more of a window into the mind of how conservative justices would seek to tell people how to live their lives no matter in what state a woman lives because you know: “small conservative” government!
Allow me to reiterate the perilous future: States like Georgia have already been pushing the boundaries with proposed legislation, “HB 481 is further proof that once Roe is gone, it won’t just be abortion providers who risk legal jeopardy: Women will be punished, too.” Get ready for Big Brother totalitarian states to destroy the rest of America, and no one will care. I said RBG’s death last year was catastrophic. I was right, although I was wrong on the timing, for the slow-motion demise of America is accelerating. I gave the dismantling of Roe a couple of years at least, but now it is going to be within the year. Oh well! Welcome to stupid America! It’s already too late, f***tards. And no one cares. Trust me. No one cares!
