They Can’t Enforce the Abortion Bans if We Don’t Let Them

Individuals and institutions are already thumbing their collective noses at the new laws

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Within days of the illegitimate Supreme Court overturning Roe Vs. Wade, plenty of Americans are showing open contempt for the new laws of the land. District attorneys from around the country in a joint statement have vowed to not criminalize or prosecute abortion, even in states that have now banned or severely limited abortion availability. Some sheriffs and police departments have also said they won’t enforce other state’s abortion laws.

Several large corporations have stated they’ll be paying for travel expenses for employees to access abortion care, and companies like Lyft and Uber have pledged to pay their drivers’ legal fees if they’re sued under the Texas Law. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about the corporate world paying for peoples’ abortion care — how many people short of a medical emergency are actually going to admit to their employer they need abortion care? And as others have pointed out, corporations behaving as though they’ll help their employees skirt the law is just a cop-out. If corporations really wanted to stand behind the rights of women, they’d pick up and leave forced-birth states. So it remains to be seen exactly how pro-reproductive-rights the…