Conservative advocacy groups are teaming up with anti-abortion state lawmakers to draft legislation that would put an end to interstate travel for abortions, which could limit the remaining abortion options for women in states with stringent bans.
The Thomas More Society, a conservative public interest law firm, has worked with red-state lawmakers to draft model legislation regulating interstate travel for abortions that would employ the civil enforcement mechanism that propped up Texas’s six-week abortion ban, the Washington Post reported. The bills would target anyone seen to be aiding and abetting interstate travel for abortion services. Private citizens who suspect someone of assisting in the procurement of an abortion would be authorized to sue that person, and the state would award a $10,000 “bounty” for successful lawsuits.
