Above and aside from my shuddering horror at the main part of this proposed law, which I'm sure will be repeated here in short order (my reaction, not the law), let me point out the complete and utter madness of the overreach of power present in the part that attempts to forbid Ohio residents from going out-of-state. This bit of the legislation presumes to override the laws of other states; it tries to override their rights to provide choice to women within their boundaries; it denies people the right to seek asylum from unjust law in other states; it seeks to make Ohio law, law everywhere. What the fuck happened to states' rights, if one state gets to take away another's power over certain people inside it.

You go to Ohio, you follow the laws there. But once you're out of Ohio, citizen or no, you DON'T have to follow Ohio's laws, you can do things that Ohio forbids, if the state you went into allows them. This is important. People should not be prisoners of their homeland when they're not in their homeland.

Back in the pre-Civil War era, the courts ruled that if someone took their slave into a state that didn't allow slavery, the slave was a free person while in that free state. The same must be true with any law. And how apt, that slavery is the previous example of this madness.

BTW, potential loophole: does it say anything to forbid a woman driving herself across state lines to get an abortion? What if she drives over, and the other person just drives her back? Even with the most ill of women, someone could drive right up to the state line, and she could get behind the wheel for twenty feet or so. (This is what's known as a technicality.)

This probably won't work either, but what is their definition of abortion? What if, upon passing this law and (Gods forbid) getting it upheld by the courts, what if Ohio were to see a sudden rise in C-sections, which delivered "babies" that were eight weeks old, three months old, five months old, etc? Technically, it would be a legal birth. Not that that would stop them for long, because although it's already born and thus not important, it enables a woman to have control of her body, and we can't have that now can we?

I'd love to go into greater detail about what I think of this, but I really can't do that without thouroughly violating the comments policy. Imagine at your discretion.

Kyra;

Thanks for that invitation to imagine. My face feels like it's going to fall off now.