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Prohibition Against Online Abortion Speech!
A Potential Gag Rule After Roe v. Wade?
Although you may shout at your neighbor and hate him or her for supporting abortion rights, what would you do if the FBI showed up and handcuffed that very neighbor of yours because he or she shared information online about a legal abortion procedure in a different state?
As we dig ourselves deeper into opposing trenches of the Roe v. Wade battlefield, there lurks another dreadful enemy that may compel us yet to meet in “no man’s land” and join forces — a grave threat to what we all uphold as sacrosanct: our freedom of speech.
At this very moment, in fact at any moment since 1996, any of us Americans could have been and can still be criminally prosecuted for distributing or receiving information about abortion on the Internet. And that pro-abortion neighbor of yours, the one with a spouse, two kids, an elderly in-law, and two dogs, can be heavily fined and imprisoned for up to five years.
You can hate them all you want. But your neighbor in this scenario will not be imprisoned because of abortion. Rather, because he or she talked about it, online.
So, will you stand for this? And how is this even possible? Here, in America!
