A proposal seeks to make it illegal to “aid or abet” abortions outlawed in Missouri, even if they are performed in other states.
aren’t likely to stop at banning most abortions within their borders but also could try to make it harder to go out of state to end pregnancies.
“If the court does that, the ability to get an abortion will be on the line for everyone in America, and so we’re at a crisis point,” said Andrew Beck, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. “The Missouri bill crystallizes that as extreme and dangerous as that crisis is, it’s just the first step in politicians’ effort to outlaw abortions for everyone.
In the Kansas City area, the two clinics performing abortions are on the Kansas side. Missouri residents have traditionally accounted for a large percentage of the abortions performed in Kansas — 42 percent in 2020, the latest data available.
“It’s already so difficult to obtain abortion in Missouri and in a lot of parts of the country, and we don’t need additional threats to people’s lives and people’s livelihoods,” Landeau said.Supreme Court might refuse to intervene to stop it — just as it did with the Texas law.
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