that would protect abortion providers in their states who serve out-of-state patients. These bills are called “shield laws.” Smith says it’s critical that blue states protect patients and providers with concrete legal action, like “not extraditing people, or not helping give evidence to prosecute someone in our state for engaging in activity that’s legal in our state.
its labor and delivery department altogether last month, as it cited concerns with criminal threats under the state abortion ban.fell, Council told Jezebel she immediately saw a “massive increase” in her caseload from minors seeking care, and “that’s including many who are traveling from out-of-state.” The irony of equating minors seeking out-of-state abortion with “trafficking” is that denying minors abortion and imposing forced childbirth on them far more closely resembles trafficking.