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

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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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….

 

 

 

Ja Adrian I should have worded it as “…you never heard of a patient being convicted for having an abortion.”  You can indict a ham sandwich, but cannot convict it.

 

In order to break a state law, one must break that law in the state where the law exists.  You and I cannot be convicted of violating Massachusetts gun laws if our shootin arns are in California.  Anyone from anywhere can travel to California, where abortion is not only legal, it is cheerfully welcomed.

 

Adrian your example illustrates that states are governments.  They are distinct democracies, within a united constitutional republic.  They can write themselves powers into their constitutions, making them 50 separate laboratories in government theory.  The heavy lifting in government should happen at the state level.  States are relevant and necessary.  We are the United States of America. 

 

spike

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