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

Everyday, stated Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not appear normal to you now, but following a time it will. It will grow to be everyday.” —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

If you’re the family members of a 12-yr-outdated girl in Texas who’s been raped and impregnated, or the spouse of a 50-12 months-aged Oklahoma girl who’s at higher danger of loss of life from being pregnant following a failure of birth regulate, your only genuinely harmless option correct now is to go to Canada.

Which is mainly because unique states in the US usually enforce each other’s courtroom judgements, so even if you tried using to move to one more point out to prevent a $10,000 judgement from a person of all those 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 after the Trump/McConnell Supreme Court receives completed with Roe v Wade, it may well not just be $10,000 you are concerned about: you could invest the relaxation of your […]