If a pregnant woman wanted to leave a state like Missouri or Ohio,

[karynnj]

16. Thanks for the article, which is both eye opening and complicated

My reading, which might be too optimistic, is that because the anti abortion people do not want to charge the pregnant woman, but any who "aid" her, these new actions may ultimately have no success at all. If the woman gets all the information she needs from people in the blue state and has the abortion there, it might be there is no one these vigilantes can sue - especially if all blue states adopt CT and CA like laws protecting their citizens.

The worst impact might be that the woman would have to travel alone (or with a blue stater) to the state where the abortion is done.

Before reading the article, I had assumed that they would go after a woman who was known to be pregnant when she left the state and not pregnant when she returned. However, I doubt that vigilantes in their town would KNOW as a fact that someone was pregnant in the first trimester. As it appears, they are NOT going after the woman - maybe because they are treating her as a child or incompetent. It might be that there will be few IN STATE "aids" they can charge -- and out of state "aids" might be protected by their own state. (If everything they do is in the blue state, how would the red state have any jurisdiction. )

Obviously, this does not help those without the resources to travel or lack the information needed.