James Finn
1 min readOct 29, 2023

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These new "trafficking" laws at the county and municipal level have private enforcement built into them, much like Mitchell used private enforcement to try to get around the Constitutional right to an abortion, when that used to be a thing.

So, a woman's family member who opposed her decision to get an abortion could go after her friend, or spouse, or whoever it might have been who drove her to the airport, or drove her out of state, or whatever.

Could local police try to intercept someone on their way to get an abortion? Probably not, or at least not after the dust settled legally. Women (like all people) still have a Constitutional right to interstate travel, and it would be very difficult to try to interfere with that.

But the consequences to anyone who helped her travel, after her travel was over, could be pretty severe. That is, if these extremists have their way.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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