HLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe unconstitutional plan to stop women from traveling out of state for an abortion, explainedwww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1370arrow-down112
arrow-up1358arrow-down1external-linkThe unconstitutional plan to stop women from traveling out of state for an abortion, explainedwww.vox.comHLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareRotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninjalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 year agoLaws like this are designed to be deterrents. You don’t need to catch very many offenders with checkpoints as long as you can create enough fear about the consequences of breaking the law to keep people from traveling to get an abortion.
minus-squareEndorkend@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 year agoExactly, these are terror tactics, not things that they ever thought would work in practice.
Laws like this are designed to be deterrents. You don’t need to catch very many offenders with checkpoints as long as you can create enough fear about the consequences of breaking the law to keep people from traveling to get an abortion.
Exactly, these are terror tactics, not things that they ever thought would work in practice.