manifold
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Ive read a number of rhetoric filled, but ultimately poorly thought out proposals to solve the abortion debate simply by leaving it up to the states to decide. According to this fatally simplistic solution, states that want to ban abortion can do so, and women from those states who want to get one can simply travel to a state where it is legal and get the procedure. Sounds almost rational on the surface, but under this solution, states dont actually retain the right to protect unborn life. All they can do is make abortion more costly and inconvenient (prohibitively even for some), but at the end of the day they dont retain the ultimate right to protect unborn life.
States would only retain ultimate right to protect unborn life if they could prosecute residents who travel out of state to have an abortion.
By definition, in order for something to be a solution, it has to actually solve a problem. So if states can only ban abortion within their own borders but cannot prevent residents from getting one out of state, exactly what problem does this solution solve?
States would only retain ultimate right to protect unborn life if they could prosecute residents who travel out of state to have an abortion.
By definition, in order for something to be a solution, it has to actually solve a problem. So if states can only ban abortion within their own borders but cannot prevent residents from getting one out of state, exactly what problem does this solution solve?