StatesAfter SCOTUS' Dobbs decision, states earned the right after Dobbs to set their own abortion policy,. andBlue blue states mailing pills past those borders are nullifying laws passed by voters in Louisiana,red Alabama and Arkansasstates. Shipping powerful drugs to women sight unseen, with no exam and no accountability, is not health care — it's a pipeline that puts women at risk. Equal sovereignty means no state gets to write the rules for every other one.
Shield laws exist becauseto doctorsmake insure Newstates York,can Californiaset andtheir Massachusettsown shouldn'tabortion face prison for care that's perfectly legal where they practicepolicies. Gutting them would let a handful of banned states export their policypolicies nationwide, subpoena private medical records and eventually reach patients, funds and volunteers too. The real target here was never to assure states' rights, —but it'sto find a nationwideway banto throughimplement thea backnationwide doorban.
There's a 3% chance that elective abortion be banned nationally in the United States before Jan. 1, 2030, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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