Under what legal theory can someone be prosecuted for a medical procedure (abortion) when the procedure occurred outside the state?
People routinely travel to or relocate to states because laws and regulations differ. When have people been prosecuted for actions illegal in state X but performed in state Y?
Any examples?
In NY state, you must have a pistol permit to USE a handgun. Can NY State prosecute NY residents who travel to Las Vegas and use a rented handgun?
You have a point about travel, but I think Scotus would look poorly on trying to regulate interstate abortion travel.
I understand the passions here. But has any state, even Alabama, tried or proposed prosecuting their "abortion traveling" residents? It seems to me, an AR-15 owning, semi libertarian NY state resident, that no state would try such a thing.
But I'm open to being naive and mostly wrong about this .
Under what legal theory can someone be prosecuted for a medical procedure (abortion) when the procedure occurred outside the state?
People routinely travel to or relocate to states because laws and regulations differ. When have people been prosecuted for actions illegal in state X but performed in state Y?
Any examples?
In NY state, you must have a pistol permit to USE a handgun. Can NY State prosecute NY residents who travel to Las Vegas and use a rented handgun?
You have a point about travel, but I think Scotus would look poorly on trying to regulate interstate abortion travel.
I understand the passions here. But has any state, even Alabama, tried or proposed prosecuting their "abortion traveling" residents? It seems to me, an AR-15 owning, semi libertarian NY state resident, that no state would try such a thing.
But I'm open to being naive and mostly wrong about this .