BREAKING: Roe v. Wade might be overruled or severely weakened by SCOTUS

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I think you would see mass mobilisation of pro-choice Americans and a mass drain of demographic and economic drain from states where there would be default anti-choice legislation.

I don’t see why that would happen. Most women who get abortions don’t have the economic resources to move to a new state on a whim, and those who do could just as easily drive or take a train to the nearest legal abortion state if they really wanted to get one.

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I think you would see mass mobilisation of pro-choice Americans and a mass drain of demographic and economic drain from states where there would be default anti-choice legislation.

I don’t see why that would happen. Most women who get abortions don’t have the economic resources to move to a new state on a whim, and those who do could just as easily drive or take a train to the nearest legal abortion state if they really wanted to get one.

Remember that Georgia passed a law to make it illegal to leave the state to get an abortion.

I can’t imagine how a state would enforce that.

I don’t see why that would happen. Most women who get abortions don’t have the economic resources to move to a new state on a whim, and those who do could just as easily drive or take a train to the nearest legal abortion state if they really wanted to get one.

And risk getting fired from their jobs for absenteeism in their convalescence and recovery from the procedure?

Most people are able to take a few days off of work.

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I think you would see mass mobilisation of pro-choice Americans and a mass drain of demographic and economic drain from states where there would be default anti-choice legislation.

I don’t see why that would happen. Most women who get abortions don’t have the economic resources to move to a new state on a whim, and those who do could just as easily drive or take a train to the nearest legal abortion state if they really wanted to get one.

Remember that Georgia passed a law to make it illegal to leave the state to get an abortion.

I can’t imagine how a state would enforce that.

I don’t see why that would happen. Most women who get abortions don’t have the economic resources to move to a new state on a whim, and those who do could just as easily drive or take a train to the nearest legal abortion state if they really wanted to get one.

And risk getting fired from their jobs for absenteeism in their convalescence and recovery from the procedure?

Most people are able to take a few days off of work.

Georgia would ask for extradition if the woman is still out of state. If not, authorities might suspect a terminated pregnancy.

Showing my ignorance here, but can you be charged with a crime for doing something that’s legal in the state you’re in? If you live in a state where gambling is illegal, but you go to an Indian Reservation to go to a casino, your home state can’t prosecute you, can they?

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Showing my ignorance here, but can you be charged with a crime for doing something that’s legal in the state you’re in? If you live in a state where gambling is illegal, but you go to an Indian Reservation to go to a casino, your home state can’t prosecute you, can they?

Georgia would try to prosecute anyway.

It doesn’t sound like they would be successful though.

Most people are able to take a few days off of work.

Have you seen the conditions many workers at the bottom in this country languish in? They get paid what amounts to poverty wages, their direct reports aren’t much better off than they are, they constantly get screamed at and abused in high-stress, uncivilized environments made worse by entitled consumers, they have little to nothing to their name, and oftentimes, they have to indebt themselves to simply get something like this done. They exist in a world of privation and humiliation, and you seem ignorant and dismissive of this reality.

For context, my original post was in response to afleitch’s contention that overturning Roe would cause a mass exodus out of states where abortion is made illegal. I’ve already acknowledged that poor women, who are most of the women who get abortions, would neither have the resources to move nor circumvent the law.