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submitted 10 months ago by Peaces@infosec.pub to c/politics@beehaw.org

A new ordinance, passed in several jurisdictions and under consideration elsewhere, aims to stop people from using local roads to drive someone out of state for an abortion

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[-] pbjamm@beehaw.org 24 points 10 months ago

make it illegal to transport anyone to get an abortion on roads within the city or county limits

Solution : Drive on the sidewalks

(these religious zealots are nuts)

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 19 points 10 months ago

I swear, are we going to see the 200-year "remastered in HD" version of the Underground Railroad? Ordinances like these are going to cause people to find "safe access routes" out of those states if we don't get action to reinstate national abortion protection or another solution relatively soon.

[-] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

This seems more like a scare tactic than anything (I hope).

This is like one of DeSantis' moronic toilet bills. How could you even enforce it?

Stop every car going in and out of state and making everyone take a pregnancy test... and if they were, then what? Send them back? What the crap is this, how imaginary and hypothetical are these right wing legislations going to go?

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago

how imaginary and hypothetical are these right wing legislations

From the article:

For example, Dickson said, a husband who doesn’t want his wife to get an abortion could threaten to sue the friend who offers to drive her.

They're not imaginary, they don't even try to hide their true agenda: going back to treating women as property.

[-] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sorry. You're right, these aren't imaginary or hypothetical. They probably have thought out the practicalities, which is even scarier.

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