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In reply to the discussion: 'Roe is dead': Ohio and Kentucky abortion laws preview a future without it [View all]JT45242
(4,209 posts)You would have to travel to the nearest non-draconian state and hope that the bounty provisions do not apply so that you could be hit with an additional $10 grand in bounty plus legal fees for whatever asshat neighbor, coworker, etc turned you in. So, an abortion could literally cost more than a year's wages at minimum wage in bounty states.
Given that Texas is literally bigger than almost every country in Europe you couldn't drive to a legal abortion state and back n less than 20 hours from some locations in TX.
In eastern Iowa we are only an hour drive from Illinois but if you wer over on the Nebraska side, you could have a long commute.
For half of the country, Roe will be dead either because it becomes impossible to physically get somehwere to do it safely or the bounties will make it financially impossible.
Watching the story arcs on Call the Midwife about this issue in the 1960s in Britain and a midwife's grandmother sentenced to 20 years for providing abortions -- it made me sick to my stomach. Some of these American Taliban will want to make doctor's life without parole or even the death penalty for performing abortions.
But -- email lady wasn't Bernie so some could not vote for her. The third party voters in 3 key states was the entire difference between the last 5 years of TDFG and a healthy country.