Most of my writing this week was on the recent elections in Iowa and New Hampshire, but most of my reading was focused elsewhere.
In particular, I want to highlight this report from Jessica Valenti, published in her excellent newsletter, on proposed travel bans for abortion care in Tennessee and Oklahoma.
The Tennessee ban, proposed by State Representative Jason Zachary, would make it a felony to take a minor out of state to obtain an abortion.
I have written about how abortion bans implicate a broad set of rights tied to our personal and bodily autonomy, including the right to travel between states.
The federal government, by contrast, was a limited government of enumerated powers — a government that could take only such action as allowed by the Constitution.
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