https://news.yahoo.com/prosecutors-states-where-abortion-now-231745604.html
As the U.S. enters an era of diminished reproductive rights following the
Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, a path has been cleared for
at least 13 states — those with “trigger laws” — to begin penalizing and
prosecuting people who violate abortion bans.
Bans are already in effect in Kentucky, Louisiana, South Dakota and Missouri,
with at least nine other states expected to follow suit in days.
While penalties vary, those states all now have laws that would charge abortion
providers with some class of felony, with punishments that include fines,
prison time and revocation of medical licenses.
Some legal experts fear that prosecutors will use intimate pieces of evidence,
such as text messages, internet search history and period tracking apps to
build their cases, as well as, perhaps, information gathered from medical
professionals.
And, though states with abortion bans have focused punishment on the providers
and not those seeking or self-managing an abortion, women will still be in the
line of fire, said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel and legal director of
If/When/How, a reproductive justice group.
