The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and opened the door for states to have strict anti-abortion laws.
But the Dr didn’t send the pills. He wrote a prescription…
I think the last time states tried arresting people outside their borders for actions committed outside their borders was the Fugitive Slave Act.
Didn’t go so well back then.
The most amazing part of this timeline isn’t just the fact that the US is turning into a third-world shithole, but the speed at which it’s doing it.
Republicans were taking notes when we handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban.
The unfortunate truth is that we’ve been a shithole for a very long time, but now it’s affecting more people so more people are noticing.
Well, looking at the current events in Germany, I’ll bet they could catch up rather soon
What current events? The conservative party (with help accepted from the far right) today failed to push through the actual bill for stricter immigration law, after over 100000 people had demonstrated in the streets against their proposal yesterday.
They got slapped in the face so hard it could be heard across the country.
Under the legislation, if someone knowingly possesses mifepristone or misoprostol without a valid prescription for any purpose, they could be fined up to $5,000 and sent to jail for one to five years. The law carves out protections for pregnant women who obtain the drug without a prescription to take on their own.
Well what’s the fucking point of the law then?
To punish the women without actually saying they’re going to punish the women.
They basically want a situation where they can say “you are perfectly free to obtain this on your own” while making sure no doctor in their right mind would actually give it to you.
That’s the goal with transgender healthcare too. The Republicans have two purposes: (1) get richer by swindling people, and (2) make people they irrationally hate suffer. The notions of making anything better or serving the people don’t even register on their radar.
Are the drugs supposed to fall off accidentally from a plane, and pregnant women that need the drug just so happen to find a box on the ground?
Pretty much, yeah.
Saying they’re going to punish women for abortions is a bridge too far even for some (key word: some) Republicans. All they care about is getting around the public relations headache that would come with penalizing pregnant women. Saying that pregnant women will not be penalized for obtaining these pills so long as they obtained them during a full moon on a Saturday between 3:00 and 3:00:01 AM in years where the final digit is even means that they can technically say that there are scenarios where pregnant women will not be penalized, and that technicality is all they care about. The fact that it would never, ever happen in a real world situation is irrelevant. It could. And to them, that’s all that matters.
