<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 15, 2026, 11:26 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">But states already controlled who gets medical licenses and<br>
malpractice suits. None of that was done at the federal level. Before<br>
those states banned abortion, it was unlikely a patient could find a doctor<br>
willing to perform it.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
John likes to bring up the case of Wyoming with its paltry 600k residents.<br>
Hell all ya need to do is get a billionaire to create a big city there. It<br>
wouldn't be that hard to take over that state's government.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
It isn't the patient who faces prosecution, but rather the doctor who faces<br>
loss of his medical license. You have never heard of a patient being<br>
prosecuted for having an abortion.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div></div>