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A State CAN criminalize an activity in the State, whether the citizens agree with the law or not. You will break the law in that State, if you then do it.
A State CANNOT criminalize an activity you might do in another State, when it is LEGAL to do it there, Your State may not allow gambling but when in Vegas you are not breaking the law, as it is legal there.
That is a foundational premise of the law as the State does not OWN you, and you are not the State's possession, so they cannot tell you what you can and cannot do in OTHER jurisdictions where the activity is LEGAL. It is not enough for the State to say 'It is illegal to do here (the activity is prohibited in THIS jurisdiction) therefore you the CITIZEN cannot do it anywhere.
They assert control of their jurisdiction but not you specifically, so it is only when you break that law in THEIR jurisdiction you then break the law. That is core to law. It is jurisdiction dependent and NOT citizen dependant, no matter where they are. It is out of season to fish Salmon where you are and you will break the law to fish it, but in season in another State, you are free to go as the law does not apply to you, the citizen, it applies to the jurisdiction.
Now Republi'can' AG's across the country are trying to get control of the Citizen and not just have control of the State and the Law.
So if you gamble in Vegas (have an abortion out of State) they want to say that even though it was legal there, the law applies to your body no matter the jurisdiction as the State has jurisdiction over your body even as it travels. No matter where it travels.
A State CANNOT criminalize an activity you might do in another State, when it is LEGAL to do it there, Your State may not allow gambling but when in Vegas you are not breaking the law, as it is legal there.
That is a foundational premise of the law as the State does not OWN you, and you are not the State's possession, so they cannot tell you what you can and cannot do in OTHER jurisdictions where the activity is LEGAL. It is not enough for the State to say 'It is illegal to do here (the activity is prohibited in THIS jurisdiction) therefore you the CITIZEN cannot do it anywhere.
They assert control of their jurisdiction but not you specifically, so it is only when you break that law in THEIR jurisdiction you then break the law. That is core to law. It is jurisdiction dependent and NOT citizen dependant, no matter where they are. It is out of season to fish Salmon where you are and you will break the law to fish it, but in season in another State, you are free to go as the law does not apply to you, the citizen, it applies to the jurisdiction.
Now Republi'can' AG's across the country are trying to get control of the Citizen and not just have control of the State and the Law.
So if you gamble in Vegas (have an abortion out of State) they want to say that even though it was legal there, the law applies to your body no matter the jurisdiction as the State has jurisdiction over your body even as it travels. No matter where it travels.
19 Republican Attorneys General Want Police to Investigate People for Abortions
...Roger Severino, a former Trump administration HHS official now at the Heritage Foundation, made conservative aims even more explicit. “If someone says, ‘I’m going to kill myself’ or ‘I’m going to kill somebody else,’ medical providers are allowed and in some cases required to disclose that information to law enforcement,” he told Politico. “But if there’s an imminent threat to an unborn person in a pro-life state, this rule would prohibit the provider from disclosing that information to save that life. They’re creating an abortion exception to the HIPAA regime.” Severino expects the AGs will sue.
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