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"President McCain appoints a suitably conservative replacement, and a complaisant or cowed Senate confirms the nomination. ... Well, that wouldn't be so bad, you may think. Some states (or even cities and counties) will offer abortion, and others won't. Women will just have to go to New York or someplace else if they want or need to end a pregnancy. A lot of states had pretty liberal laws in 1972 ... but it's not 1972. ... Is it possible, you ask, that in a post-Roe world, states would be able to pass valid laws stopping women from leaving to obtain an abortion? It seems un-American. But a lot of law professors have looked at this question, and although they're still debating it, many of the best in the business believe that this is something states probably can do."
Channel: Washington Post: Courts
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