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1 Roderick M. Hills, Jr., Choice of Law in an Era of Abortion Conflict: When a Citizen of an Anti-Abortion State Travels to Another State to Receive the Procedure, Which State's Law Should Apply? 1 (2025)

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I  JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION I


Choice of Law in an Era of Abortion

Conflict


When a citizen of an anti-abortion state travels to another state

to receive   the procedure, which state's law should apply?

By Roderick M. Hills Jr. Published: February 3, 2025

Louisiana  Texas New York  Florida Arkansas Nevada


   In October, then-candidate Donald Trump declared that the regulation of abortion
   was up to the states to decide based on the will of their voters. This federalism-
   oriented stance seemed to _suggest that Trump might stand by his promise to leave
   regulating abortion up to the states.

   But which states get to regulate which abortions?

   Last week, a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for allegedly mailing
   abortion-facilitating pills to a Louisiana teenager. In December, Texas Attorney
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