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Kentucky woman who ordered abortion meds charged with fetal homicide, police say
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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States are not allowed to prohibit interstate travel under the US Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privileges_and_Immunities_Clause
If only the far right conservatives cared about what the Constitution says.
And yet Texas has allowed individuals to sue out-of-state companies/residents for providing mail-order abortion pills. Everyone involved in the manufacture, packaging, and delivery could be sued. Claimants could win up to $100k per case. Lawmakers specifically made it a civil issue to keep it out of the criminal courts, because that allows them to skirt the interstate commerce clause. It also allows them to crowdfund the enforcement, because it’s two citizens duking it out in court instead of a state prosecutor having to handle every case.
They also want to avoid coming into conflict with the liberal states’ shield laws, which basically says the liberal state will defend a person/company if they’re criminally prosecuted by a conservative state for facilitating an abortion. Because if two states have a disagreement about a criminal case, it goes straight to the SCOTUS. And those conservative lawmakers know the conservative SCOTUS would rule on their favor… And they specifically don’t want the SCOTUS to rule in their favor on this. Because it would open the floodgates for liberal states to prosecute gun/ammo makers whenever shootings happen with weapons that were purchased across state lines.
The real reason they don't want the supreme Court to weigh in is that they don't want to win the issue. They want to milk it forever
Until they use “fetal personhood” to claim the pregnant person is kidnapping the fetus by crossing state lines, adding to this kafkaesque nightmare.