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There are certain precedents: if you travel abroad to have sex with children, or commit espionage or terrorism against your home country, you can be prosecuted in the US even if what you did was "100% legal" in the jurisdiction where the acts physically took place.

Applying this kind of logic to speeding or indeed healthcare does seem like an overreach of government - but in general Americans who support women's reproductive rights favour more government overreach, not less.



There's no state in the United States in which pedophilia, or committing espionage / terrorism is legal.

> but in general Americans who support women's reproductive rights favour more government overreach, not less

Compared to what?


> Compared to what?

It's just a smear. Biased language ("overreach") addressing generalities rather than specifics is how you nudge people toward "this group is bad, because they favor [biased language bad thing that everyone agrees is bad—what, are you going to defend 'overreach'? Of course not]".


Really? It does seem like this issue was used to create non-jurisdiction-bound laws, which of course now sucks.




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