SCOTUS: Dobbs is in. Roe and Casey are overruled.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

"It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people's elected representatives."

[Mad_Machine76]

1. ..................

[Ilsa]

2. Well shit.

msnbc just ran a story on texas women going to New Mexico or Mexico for abortions for medication to abort or surgically abort.

[MichMan]

3. Why not just go to California or the many other states that allow it?

Why Mexico?

[Ilsa]

5. I guess being from Michigan, you don't realize the breadth of Texas.

The distance from El Paso to Beaumont (east of Houston) is greater than the distance of El Paso to Los Angeles. Poorer women, especially those that are already mothers, can't take a week off work, leave their kids 24-7, and pay room and board for a week to travrl to CA, NY, etc. This group makes up about 25-30%, if not more, of women seeking abortion.

On edit: Southern women, geographically, have further to travel for an abortion, with the exception of women in deep south Texas.

map of likely abortion rights: https://reason.com/2022/06/24/here-is-a-state-by-state-rundown-of-what-will-happen-now-that-scotus-has-freed-lawmakers-to-restrict-abortion/

[Ocelot II]

4. But the issue of gun control can't be returned to the people's elected representatives.