Donald Trump appointee Justice Brett Kavanaugh was one of the six GOP-appointed justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade when the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday, June 24.
This was in contrast to Sen. Susan Collins’ claims from 2018 that Roe was “settled law.” As a result of the Dobbs decision, individual states are now allowed to outlaw abortion.
Kavanaugh has said he doesn’t think individual states may prohibit interstate travel when it comes to abortion, contrary to some far-right Christian nationalists who think it should be illegal to travel over state lines to get an abortion.
Kavanaugh penned: “In my opinion, some of the additional legal issues about abortion that today’s decision raises are not very complex from a constitutional standpoint. For instance, can a State prevent a person from going to another state to get an abortion? Based on the constitutional right to interstate movement, I believe the answer is no.”
According to Kavanaugh’s remarks, Texas lawmakers cannot prevent a Texas woman from travelling to New Mexico or Colorado for an abortion, even though he would support Texas’ authority to outlaw abortion nationwide.
Kavanaugh has said he thinks individual states may not impose interstate travel limitations on abortion, in contrast to some far-right Christian nationalists who think it should be illegal to cross state lines to seek an abortion.
Authored by Kavanaugh “Some of the additional legal issues about abortion that today’s decision raises, in my opinion, are not very challenging from a constitutional standpoint.
Alternatively, he doesn’t think Indiana’s state government has the power to prevent a pregnant person from getting an abortion legally in nearby Illinois if abortion becomes outlawed in Indiana.
When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday, June 24, Donald Trump appointee Justice Brett Kavanaugh was one of the six GOP-appointed justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Sen. Susan Collins’ statements that Roe was “established law” in 2018 were in opposition to this. The Dobbs ruling has made it possible for individual states to ban abortion.
Contrary to some far-right Christian nationalists who believe it should be unlawful to cross state lines to obtain an abortion, Kavanaugh has stated that he believes individual states may not impose interstate travel restrictions when it comes to abortion.
Written by Kavanaugh: “Some of the extra abortion-related legal questions that today’s decision presents, in my opinion, are not particularly complicated from a constitutional perspective.
Can a State, for example, forbid a person from travelling to another state to have an abortion? I think the answer is no, given the constitutional guarantee of interstate travel.”
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Although Kavanaugh would defend Texas’ right to criminalise abortion nationwide, he claimed that the Texas legislature cannot stop a Texas woman from travelling to New Mexico or Colorado for an abortion.
Alternatively, he believes that if abortion is made illegal in Indiana, the state government cannot stop a pregnant person from having a legal abortion in the neighbouring state of Illinois.
