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Question for the lawyers: could federal anti-slavery/trafficking laws help re: abortion?
Among other justifications for legal abortion, I've always felt that forced pregnancy is a form of slavery, or at least indentured servitude.
Could federal laws against such things be used to prevent the enforcement of state laws banning abortion?
Granted, (a) abortion providers will shut down in those states regardless and (b) the Supreme Court would no doubt find a states' rights or other justification to ignore federal law, but this might at least buy us some time and allow legal abortion by pills for a while....
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