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2023 UNT Dallas L. Rev. On the Cusp 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/ontcp2024 and id is 1 raw text is: 203 ON - THE CUSP 2024 THE INTERJURISDICTIONAL ABORTION WARS HAVE ARRIVED Professor Ronnie R. Gipson Jr.* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE STATES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LACK OF FEDERAL PROTECTIONS BY CASTING A WIDER NET.............................................1 A . The P ractical Effect ....................................................................................2 With the promulgation of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org.,1 the United States Supreme Court eviscerated federal protection for a woman's right to exercise the difficult choice to abort her pregnancy. Dobbs represents a seismic shift in the law with gargantuan import and unforeseen implications for years to come. The unexpected consequences of the Dobbs decision unfold daily with troubling reverberations throughout our society. One consequence is that the removal of federal protection for a woman's right to choose to terminate a pregnancy has been supplanted with state laws that prohibit the provision of this specific medical service and serve to punish other citizens who seek to help women obtain healthcare within this realm. I. THE STATES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LACK OF FEDERAL PROTECTIONS BY CASTING A WIDER NET Thus, we find ourselves in a time where state laws fill the void left by the removal of federal protection for a woman's right to choose with a wide range of prohibitions, penalties, and in some instances, the danger of criminal prosecution. For example, in Wisconsin, a law enacted in 1849 makes performance of an abortion a Class H felony punishable by six years in jail and a $10,000 fine for the * Ronnie R. Gipson Jr. is an Assistant Professor at the Cecil C. Humphries School of Law at the University of Memphis. Professor Gipson is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of aviation law. The author would like to thank Professors John Acevedo, Sonya Garza, and Daniel Kiel for sharing their Constitutional law expertise in discussions on this topic. The author would also like to thank his Research Assistants Bailey Carey and Tarik Terry for their contributions. 1 1422 S. Ct. 2228 (2022).

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