Kontrolled Chaos

the law has just decided that constitutional rights to bodily autonomy will be localized. this is not a fucking win for anyone. there will be places in this country that your bodily autonomy will be revoked.

how are people going to travel? will i have to prove i'm not pregnant before leaving my state? will they have border checks to check i'm not a "likely" candidate for an abortion? will i have to travel with a man to prove i'm being safe?

what happens if i get pregnant in a state that has made abortion illegal? do i need to stay there, now, until the forced birth? what happens if i didn't know i was pregnant, and find out in that state - will i be allowed to go home without fear of being fined? what happens if i miscarry while travelling, through no fault of my own?

will every person that might be able to get pregnant have to sign over their rights every time they cross a border? will i have to remember the specifics of every state's laws?

what happens in cases of sexual assault. will i be able to report something happening to me in an anti-abortion state? or will the punishment for abortion be equally dangerous? how does this protect victims at all?

and do you really think - i mean really think - this won't be an excuse for police offices to run fucking unchecked over anyone. we could be pregnant, after all. black women and minorities specifically will be targeted, abused, and controlled.

the supreme court didn't just decide that abortion was a state issue: it decided that your locality in the united states of america will determine your physical rights.