Antiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines

[Ms. Toad]

43. It isn't quite that simple.

Unlike privacy rights, which aren't explicit in the constitution, both travel and commerce are. It is harder to ignore express provisions of the constitution.

There are reasonably well established tests for evaluating state laws restricting interstate commerce, so they would have to find distinctions within the existing framework. So far, they haven't just abandoned existing framework. Under the existing framework, there isn't any meaningful factor (relevant to evaluating a states laws) to distinguish between two restrictions on traveling to spend money in another state.

This supreme court is certainly stretching standard jurisprudence, but it isn't just making stuff up.