A Tennessee Republican hopes to establish an “abortion trafficking” felony for adults who help pregnant minors get an out-of-state abortion without parental permission, an effort reproductive health advocates argue will run afoul of constitutional rights such as interstate travel.

Rep. Jason Zachary, R-Knoxville, filed House Bill 1895 on Monday. The legislation would establish a new Class C felony, which could carry three to 15 years in prison, for an adult that “recruits, harbors or transports” a pregnant minor for the purposes of receiving an out-of-state abortion or for getting abortion medication.

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    9 months ago

    Your argument doesn’t seem all that separated from the Nazi Nuremberg defense

    “I was just following orders”

    The world collectively decided that defense would not stand

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      9 months ago

      Nope.

      What I’m doing would be more like trying to understand why Germans fell for propaganda and fought for the nazis.

      It doesn’t excuse what they did.

      But if we don’t understand why they did it, how are we supposed to prevent a future generation from falling for the same shit?

      Because, again, we just saw a group of conservatives attempt to overthrow the American government because they believed propaganda.

      Don’t you think that maybe, just maybe, we should try to prevent there from being another “next time”?

      You don’t think that’s something that’s important?