Mississippi authorities need details on residents who get abortions or gender-affirming care in other states, AG Lynn Fitch said.
Mississippi authorities need details on residents who get abortions or gender-affirming care in other states, AG Lynn Fitch said.
I never understood states rights and how separating our country into 50 different little countries is a good thing. It puts states at odds and forces the US Judicial system into having to decide. Putting the law deciding back into the hands of the federal government.
Isn’t the whole point that if someone doesn’t agree with the laws of the state they reside they can go to a state that does? It would seem needing to find out who gets an abortion or gender-affirming outside of your state is nobody’s worry. Those people are doing the exact thing conservatives want.
Does Mississippi plan on charging people in other states of committing a crime? Is it to make sure a Mississippi resident doesn’t cross a state border? If so, why? What intentions would the state of Mississippi have with this info if not to prosecute?
It’s because each distinct sovereign state has its own challenges that can’t be solved by one blanket overall federal system. The governing challenges that let’s say California has are different from the governing challenges Vermont has.
Colonialism had a lot to do with how the governments were organized, so as each colony developed through authorization from England, they had the freedom to govern themselves within certain limitations from The Crown. Each colony developed similar legislatures, based on bicameralism (upper & lower chamber), governor, and then courts. When the Continental Congress came together they recognized each government equally. So there’s solid historical reasoning behind why each state is considered their own country.
There was a huge debate at the beginning of the U.S. that eventually realized a combination of Federalism, and individual State Sovereignty. Initially, the Articles of Confederation left a messy system quite like you describe. Yet each state had their own commerce law, would charge fees to cross borders, etc. That system worked terribly due to the fact there was no strong central authority to resolve state differences, so it was scrapped towards a more federalized system that gave stronger power to a central federal government to solve problems, and still left the states enough legal room to govern themselves…The Constitution.
I appreciate the reply but I just don’t see why states need different laws. The time period cited for the need was 250 years ago. I guess that is the conservative modus operandi.
I’m just not convinced that Mississippi having different, worse, healthcare laws is better for the people who live there. Mississippi is choosing to shit their pants, but as a country we all share the smell. Conservatives want to sit in their soiled pants, or the smell, and the rest of us will are horrified.