Interstate abortion travel bans? We're supposed to be a free country, not East Germany.
Tens of millions of Americans are too young to remember how repressive regimes clamp down on freedom of movement.
In 1952, citizens of Soviet-controlled East Germany could travel only 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) without permission. If you lived in East Berlin after 1961, you could be shot and killed if you tried to get past the heavily fortified and guarded Berlin Wall.
People kept crossing that border – jumping, scaling, tunneling, hot air ballooning – from the day it was sealed. Sometimes they died in the attempt. Changes to East Germany's highly restrictive travel and emigration policies were not announced until just before the wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989.
If you lived in the Soviet Union, you needed government permission to visit or move to another country. There was a whole class of “refuseniks” who were denied that permission, most of them Jewish. Even now, relocation within Russia is controlled by the government and, for government employees and others, so is foreign travel.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/interstate-abortion-travel-bans-were-supposed-to-be-a-free-country-not-east-germany/ar-AAZeSye
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