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Should pregnant women be prevented from traveling out of State by Red States to ensure that woman will not seek an abortion in another State where it is legal for them?
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Republicans Took a Woman’s Right to Choose. Now They’re Threatening Her Right to Travel
In Washington, Republicans say it's ridiculous to accuse the GOP of trying to prevent women from traveling to access abortion care. In Texas, that project is already underway
...The effort to restrict a woman’s right to travel across state lines is already underway.
One week before Lankford made those comments, Yvette Ostolaza, a Dallas-based corporate litigator and the head of the white-shoe law firm Sidley Austin LLP, received a letter from a handful of elected officials in Texas.
“It has come to our attention that Sidley Austin has decided to reimburse the travel costs of employees who leave Texas to murder their unborn children,” the letter, signed by eleven Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives, read. It went on to threaten the law firm — one of the country’s largest — with criminal prosecution and the disbarment of its partners, among other penalties, over its pledge to reimburse “abortion-related travel and, if necessary, related legal-defense expenses” for its employees.
In the letter, Republicans went on to detail their plans to introduce “legislation next session that will impose additional civil and criminal sanctions on law firms that pay for abortions or abortion travel.”
Dozens of the nation’s top law firms, as well as many of its biggest corporations — Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Disney, Tesla, JP Morgan Chase, to name a few — have publicly promised to help employees forced to travel from states where abortion has been banned to receive medical care. ...
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