Connecticut Offers Refuge to Red State Women with a “Fugitive Woman Act”

Common, reported Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may well not feel normal to you now, but immediately after a time it will. It will turn out to be standard.” —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

If you are the household of a 12-year-previous girl in Texas who’s been raped and impregnated, or the spouse of a 50-12 months-previous Oklahoma girl who’s at better risk of dying from pregnancy right after a failure of start management, your only really protected possibility proper now is to move to Canada.

Which is mainly because personal states in the US normally enforce every single other’s court docket judgements, so even if you tried to go to a different condition to prevent a $10,000 judgement from a person of these states’ courts, the point out you moved to or have been hiding out in would just routinely seize your residence to fund the payment.

And as soon as the Trump/McConnell Supreme Court docket will get performed with Roe v Wade, it might not just be $10,000 you are concerned about: you could commit the relaxation of your […]