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

Everyday, reported Aunt Lydia, is what you are employed to. This could not seem to be normal to you now, but just after a time it will. It will become common.” —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

If you’re the spouse and children of a 12-yr-old woman in Texas who’s been raped and impregnated, or the husband of a 50-12 months-previous Oklahoma woman who’s at larger danger of dying from being pregnant soon after a failure of beginning manage, your only truly safe selection appropriate now is to transfer to Canada.

That’s simply because specific states in the US generally implement each other’s court docket judgements, so even if you tried using to transfer to an additional state to steer clear of a $10,000 judgement from one particular of people states’ courts, the condition you moved to or were being hiding out in would just routinely seize your home to fund the payment.

And the moment the Trump/McConnell Supreme Court docket gets finished with Roe v Wade, it may perhaps not just be $10,000 you are apprehensive about: you could expend the relaxation of your […]