How would a State law like this work in reality? I'm sure there are examples of where a State law couldn't be enforced on a person when they left the State. Perhaps there was a time you when you were considered a citizen of a State. There's no real or practical permanence to State residency.
On a practical level, who is going to turn you in? Your doctor? I could be wrong, but isn't your doctor legally required to maintain your privacy.
For pretty much the same reason State abortion bans are fairly outdated, who's going to know you were pregnant and got an abortion out of state?
Lots of people will know.
Do you think people never talk about such things?
Besides, all you need to investigate is the suspicion, right?
The fact of no real permanent State residency is why you have to have the law, right?
Otherwise people can just pretend to be from a different state to avoid the law.
Can't have that.
So make a law that anyone who helps you leave a state to get an abortion is also guilty of a crime.
Now people have an incentive to turn you in because they don't want to be charged.
You think that taxi driver who took you to a clinic will go to jail for you?
Or the one who took you to the airport?
Also, who gave you the money? They can get arrested to.
Is such a law fucking insane?
Of course it is, but that's the point.
If everyone is terrified it keeps people in line.
Then, when people protest these laws, the Court can say the only way to stop the confusion is for there to be one law nationwide banning abortion.
You act like this is some kind of rational balancing act of rights and freedoms and not a push to ban abortion nationwide.