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?
Here's one possibility: State A forbids abortion. State B permits it. State A passes a law forbidding travel from or through State A for the purpose of abortion. And then prosecutes doctor in State B for conspiracy to abet unlawful travel. Whether this would hold up on challenge, I don't know.
But equally strange things have happened. Manuel Noriega of Panama was indicted for violating U.S. laws on drugs and money laundering, even though he didn't set foot in the U.S. to do so. George H. W. Bush ordered an invasion of Panama to seize him. Noriega was tried in the U.S. and served 17 years in a U.S. prison.
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?
Here's one possibility: State A forbids abortion. State B permits it. State A passes a law forbidding travel from or through State A for the purpose of abortion. And then prosecutes doctor in State B for conspiracy to abet unlawful travel. Whether this would hold up on challenge, I don't know.
But equally strange things have happened. Manuel Noriega of Panama was indicted for violating U.S. laws on drugs and money laundering, even though he didn't set foot in the U.S. to do so. George H. W. Bush ordered an invasion of Panama to seize him. Noriega was tried in the U.S. and served 17 years in a U.S. prison.
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 .