Opinion by Greg Sargent: As red states prepare to target women who cross state lines for abortions, the feds gear up.
It instructs the attorney general and White House counsel to convene private pro-bono lawyers and public interest groups to defend women targeted for traveling out of state for reproductive care, and to defend doctors who provide it.
It directs the attorney general to provide technical assistance to states protecting their providers if they administer abortions to patients who cross state lines to get them.telling doctors and health-care providers that they are not required — or are sometimes prohibited from — disclosing patients’ private health information, even to law enforcement.
All these could bear directly on coming battles among states. Right now, antiabortion activists and red-state politicians areto criminalize when a woman from a state that has banned abortion seeks care in a state where it’s legal. These state efforts include ideas like authorizing residents of antiabortion states to bring vigilante lawsuits against women seeking treatment elsewhere. These efforts may also target people who help those women, possibly including peoplePatients crossing state lines for abortions and facing such prosecutions, then, might benefit from legal assistance marshaled by the feds.
Leah Litman, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, says such prosecutions might arise in two ways. First, they might proceed from something that’s
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