Can red states regulate abortions performed outside their borders?

Several states have outlawed telemedicine abortions and sending the pills by mail.

But some, like Texas, have gone further by contemplating how they’ll prosecute providers who seek to send in abortion pills from out of state. Texas last year expanded upon its existing prohibitions on mailing medication abortion pills by classifying the offense as the type of crime that would warrant extradition.

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“As you start to think about all the ways that the portability of medication abortion changes the access landscape, I think you see a lot of laws targeting that,” said Rachel Rebouché, who is a co-author of a coming law review article exploring the interstate legal questions raised by a Roe reversal.

On the flip side — and in anticipation that their states will become so-called “safe havens” for abortion seekers and clinics — Democratic lawmakers are pushing proposals that would limit the ability of out-of-state authorities to investigate providers within blue states.

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