Nothing like dry British humor:
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Make anti-choice states as expensive and their legal systems deadlocked as possible
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He should have kept his lips together.
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If it was a legitimate repast, the body has ways to shut that down.
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Texas Assholes Caucus wasting no time. It’s a strange letter for legislators to be sending, but I guess it’s just the Texas GOP way.
The thing is, Sidley Austin LLP is not a small law firm. Good luck with that.
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The “before and after Dobbs” caught my eye. I have wondered whether TX would start looking to actions taken in the previous era for show trials. They need blood fof their base.
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A plan to bring the Women on Waves concept to the US. But how are people seeking care supposed to get to the provider ship when Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas will have laws in place, if they don’t already, criminalizing assistance or support for those seeking abortion care?
Will small craft operators who in the 70s and 80s used to smuggle weed and coke in via the bayous and backwaters come out of retirement to smuggle women out?
Maybe I’m just mentally in a too dark place to see how this would work…
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Remotely operated tenders launched from the ship?
This comment is not meant as a joke, the technology exists. I wonder how that would shake out legally.
Though I also know that this is a very techbro approach to the problem. What is really needed is solid support networks on the ground. People who drive people over state lines, people who just talk to people and show them that they’re not alone in a hostile society, etc.
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The Great Lakes Waterway is the largest inland fresh water system in the world, the passage is large enough for ocean-going vessels, and prior (and simultaneous) to being off-shore from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota it is bounded by the safety of Canada.
Much easier to get people to that part of the country, as all the supply chains were built specifically to make those connections.
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I see what you did there, and I confess to hating it.
Article from when this was done in Ireland 20 years ago
https://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/15/ireland.ship02/index.html
I dont think many at the time foresaw the great leap backwards that would happen in the USA
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We need a lot more public officials like this:
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She nicely tied all this stuff together.
Here is the youtube version…
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When it comes to people leaving the state, and that includes international waters, they have no jurisdiction. Sure, they’ll try, but it’s pretty clear there’s no legal justification for punishing anyone for what they do out of state, and likewise they can’t criminalize transportation or travel.
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Fascists restrict the movement of their designated scapegoat population so they can’t escape all the other stuff planned for them. They don’t care about jurisdiction, just whether they can get away with it.
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But in this case, that freedom is enshrined in Constitutional and federal law. So if they “try to get away with it” the Feds can crack down and force the issue. Remember the iconic photo of the Little Rock Nine? That’s what we’re talking about. Fail to respect people’s right to move about and expect National Guard Units to escort them.
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Yet they will probably still try.
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