What Happens If SCOTUS Orders Blue States to Respect Fetal Personhood?

So on Wednesday, three abortion ban states, Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas, filed two lawsuits going after abortion shield laws and the doctors those laws protect.

One of those lawsuits was filed straight with the Supreme Court against New York, California, and Massachusetts.

Those are shield law states.

And a shield law is a state basically saying, "If our doctors are following our laws, we're not gonna help you punish them.

Our police won't arrest them for you, our courts won't enforce your judgments against them, and our governor won't extradite them to your state to stand trial." The second lawsuit landed in district court in the Western District of Louisiana, and that lawsuit was filed against 30 defendants, abortion providers, advocacy groups, and even a mail order pharmacy.

Now, both lawsuits run on the same idea, sovereignty.

If you mail something illegal into a ban state, then the state gets to come after you, whether the package has anthrax in it or mifepristone.

But to prove that their residents are actually getting hurt, the ban state reaches for fetal personhood, which has low-key been the anti-abortion's endgame since 1973.

In Roe, the Supreme Court said it flat out, when the Constitution says person, that does not include the unborn.

Well, Roe's gone now, and these three states have answered the personhood question for themselves.

Louisiana's law calls an unborn child a, quote, "legal person from conception." Arkansas says, "Our state policy is to protect unborn life from conception." Alabama wrote, quote, "the rights of the unborn child" right into its constitution.

And then in 2024, its Supreme Court said that frozen embryos count as children under the state's wrongful death law, which is totally fucking normal.

Now, watch what the ban states do with the personhood nonsense.

They use their personhood laws to turn abortion into an injury to the state itself.

Louisiana, in one of the complaints, literally says that it is experiencing approximately 1,000 abortions a month.

Experiencing abortions? Really? Does Louisiana have a womb? Because if it does, that's weird, and we should be talking about that.

But in their telling, mailing pills kills people, embryos, fetuses, that their laws are meant to protect.

So by that argument, and everything flips.

A prescription written in New York becomes a killing in Louisiana.

A shield law becomes cover for the killer.

And New York saying, "We're not fucking helping you," becomes New York refusing to recognize the victim.

So if these states can call an embryo a person and make the shield law states live with the consequences, then the ban state's personhood laws don't stop at ban state borders.

And that's how fetal personhood crosses state lines without the Supreme Court ever having to say a goddamn thing.