There was a much smaller town, I believe more in East Texas, that brought such an ordinance up. I was pleasantly shocked that they eventually came to the conclusion that their proposed "papers please" environment was a wee bit too much like what many of their older residents had fought against.

Sadly, I'm not confident that clearer minds will continue to prevail.

Further, as I type this, I'm in an airport in Dallas headed to Nevada where I'm going to gamble, have sex out of wedlock, consume cannabis, and potentially purchase and consume an alcoholic beverage between the hours of two and seven in the morning. Somehow, no Texas legislator has any interest in prohibiting my endeavors. Seems inconsistent.

The real problem is this notion that these abortion bans are enforced through private lawsuits, and not by actual law enforcement. The law was crafted this way on purpose, to evade judicial review: you can't sue the State over its enforcement if the state doesn't enforce it. The article even quotes someone pointing out that all this does is get localities involved in private lawsuits.

Conservatives are super afraid of the Government intruding on people's lives but have no problem at all empowering nosy neighbors to do it.

As an experiment, a Liberal city with strict gun laws ought to pass similar laws empowering nosy neighbors to sue people they suspect of harboring illegal firearms, and Transporting them across state lines. It may be the only way to get this Conservative Supreme Court to address this practice.

It's not just unconstitutional, it's legally nonsensical. Citizens of a state are not the property of the state, a state only has jurisdiction over what people do inside the state itself.

i am confused how the feds cant now also dig up the bastardized, dead horse that is the commerce clause and use it against TX here.

or how the fuck does your legal intent in another jurisdiction makes you a prisoner of the current one?

I really feel like politicians should be held financially liable for the legal costs of defending obviously unconstitutional laws like this. I mean, it's so unbelievably unconstitutional that no serious judge would allow it to stand in a legal challenge. That makes this a waste of taxpayer money when it inevitably goes to judicial challenge.

I'm sorry, but does this say: Texas can't stop you from having an abortion, so they'll make it illegal for someone to transport you there?

I’m a dipshit and even I know this is one of the dumbest ideas ever conceived.

So Texas is saying it's illegal to transport people to another state if it's for an abortion, but it's encouraged to transport immigrants to another state if they're undocumented?

What if it's an undocumented immigrant that wants an abortion?

Making it illegal for women to travel is simply called Freedom LIBTARDS!