CO Sec of State: 'We will stand firm' in blocking extradition of women who travel to get abortions
David Knowles,·Senior Editor
Fri, July 8, 2022 at 12:21 AM
Shortly after Gov. Jared Polis signed an executive order Wednesday forbidding state officials from helping other states in criminal and civil investigations of women who travel there to receive abortions, Colorado's secretary of state, Jena Griswold, affirmed that her office would "not extradite anyone for a criminal violation of another state’s laws."
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, leaving abortion law up to the states, Republican-led legislatures in states like Arkansas and Texas have begun looking into passing measures that make it a crime for women to obtain the procedure in other states.
For Griswold, a Democrat, that would be a blatant overreach of government power, as she articulated in a Twitter thread on Wednesday.
"Every American should have the right to choose who to start a family with, if and when to start a family, and how many children to have," she wrote. "Pregnancy is never something that should be forced on women by the government."
The court's decision, however, has already led nine Republican-led states to ban abortion, and more restrictions are on the horizon. Many Democratic-led states, meanwhile, have looked to bolster protections for women seeking abortions and the medical providers offering it. The new patchwork reality promises that legal battles on abortion will continue to play out in the coming years.
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There's battle lines being drawn. . .
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Has fcked over 1/2 the population of America.
I am appalled to think that Some Red States think they have ANY POWER to dictate what a pregnant person does while visiting a nearby state. I am so outraged by this. Extradition, if I understand, is where state #1 asks state #2 to send back a ‘criminal’ to state #1 where the criminal act was first perpetrated.
If a person goes from state #1, having done nothing wrong in state #1, and does something in state #2, which is legal in state #2, how in hell does state #1 have any say whatsoever???
If this is the future of America, I want out. At 68, my options for emigration are limited both from a ‘qualification’ and ‘financial’ stand point. But, I will not stand for these “gazpacho’ (gestapo) measures.
This is flipping insane.
And if our Democratic leaders what to show some sort of support, they will not waffle in their public comments. They will say very clearly: The Red states can’t dictate what someone does in another state. None of the mumbo-jumbo complicated 12th dimensional chess comments. Just say it. What the Red state is requesting is NOT LEGAL. Period. I am happy Griswald made her statement. But, this goes beyond the whole “women have rights’ stuff. This is about the legal authority states have over actions of people in other states. I’m sorry, this is a gateway to controlling people over state lines where there is no jurisdiction in most cases.
I know there are things like carrying weapons over state lines, and kidnapping, etc. But, you can’t dictate what a person does which is legal in that state. No, not happening.
