Red States are Trying To Enact Fugitive Abortion Laws…

Handmaids Tale at the Boston Womens March 2019…image via Wikimedia.org

I don’t like it when people compare current issues to slavery. I think it’s disingenuous. Unless it’s human trafficking, it is not slavery. Yet, the Republican Party, with the help of the Supreme Court, is attempting to enact slave-time laws to stop women from accessing abortions.

Now that Roe v. Wade is overturned in almost half of the United States, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court, along with politicians from these red states, want to make it illegal for women to cross state lines to have legal abortions.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The Thomas More Society, a conservative legal organization, is drafting model legislation for state lawmakers that would allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps a resident of a state that has banned abortion from terminating a pregnancy outside of that state. The draft language will borrow from the novel legal strategy behind a Texas abortion ban enacted last year in which private citizens were empowered to enforce the law through civil litigation.

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 gave authority to slave-catchers from the South to hunt down formerly enslaved people who had escaped to the North. By federal law, authorities in the North had to turn over escaped Black people, by order of the federal government. Anyone who was…