Post-Roe interstate legal warfare echoes fugitive slave litigation

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The expected demise of Roe v. Wade has led to legal warfare between states over a bitterly contested civil rights issue on a scale not seen since the events leading up to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.

Red states are pursuing laws to curb abortions that entail regulating activity in other states. Deep-blue states like Connecticut, meanwhile, are passing measures to forestall such efforts and become abortion “sanctuaries.”

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