[ExI] Abortion laws (Was: Re: Trump suggests letting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles and San Diego)

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2026, 11:26 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> But states already controlled who gets medical licenses and
> malpractice suits.  None of that was done at the federal level.  Before
> those states banned abortion, it was unlikely a patient could find a doctor
> willing to perform it.
>

Only true in marginal cases, generally where there's lower than average
access to health care.  It has been widely documented that these laws have
caused restricted or no local access to abortion providers, where
previously there had been access but then those former providers were
subject to these laws.

John likes to bring up the case of Wyoming with its paltry 600k residents.
> Hell all ya need to do is get a billionaire to create a big city there.  It
> wouldn't be that hard to take over that state's government.
>

I've studied this a bit.  It takes a lot more than just billions of dollars
to create a city - at least, one that will survive for multiple decades -
with hundreds of thousands of residents.

It isn't the patient who faces prosecution, but rather the doctor who faces
> loss of his medical license.  You have never heard of a patient being
> prosecuted for having an abortion.


I have.  The prosecution was unsuccessful, but the attempt was made to
enforce one state's laws on a resident of that state for getting an
abortion in another state.
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