Its just crazy to imagine how this can be enforced.

I have to assume its all after-the-fact. Like, someone travels to get an abortion and then the abusive spouse or nosey neighbors squeal. And then the state tries to trace the route and press charges in a municipal court.

I don't think that they plan to just blockade the highway and hassle everyone who passes through.

These people have 0 principles or convictions. There’s a million contradictions with them bc words and their stated principles don’t mean shit to them, they care about exercising power over people and that’s it.

“Freedom” is just a buzzword meant to signal to other reactionaries. they’ll say whatever they think sounds good but it doesn’t mean anything they’ll drop it the minute it becomes inconvenient.

They've been pivoting from "land of the free" to "save the children" as a rallying cry.

As the white nationalist "not enough blue eyed babies!" panic ramps up, we're going to see more outright eugenics talk.

They're not going to do any of this, because it would too severely impact rich people.

Small low pop countries where local governments don't have money or manpower to do anything like this. Neither does the state, at large. They can barely maintain their enormous prison system, much less their domestic borders.

All this really amounts to is a means why which the AG can harass any pro-choice organization in the state with lawsuits.

Razor wire and saw blades in between to catch people,

The choose life freedom wire

"And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"

"I suppose."

"No papers?"

"No papers, state to state."

Are you telling me that the geriatric Catholic who was best buddies with Strom Thurmond and opposed ending American apartheid does not, in fact, sympathise with socially progressive causes?

It's a legal sleight of hand enabling the fascist regime of Texas to punish women after the fact for getting a legal abortion in another state.

Texas will find a way. They can have some wackadoodle Texas GOP judge review the situation. And they will claim some nonsense like "the mother is undertaking preborn kidnapping". And then the ruling can go up the GOP legal foodchain until it finally reaches the GOP justices on the supreme court.

The enforcement will come through targeted vexatious litigation and criminal sanction. Its what they did to Food Not Bombs down in Houston. Just single out members of the organization with a bunch of fines and citations, and drown them in legal costs.