PolitiFact - Can states punish women for traveling out of state to get an abortion?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : After all, Tobias said, until recently, "few observers thought that the Supreme Court would overrule the constitutional right to abortion that Roe granted."
40% : If abortion was legal in the second state, the state passing the out-of-state abortion restriction might be on safer legal ground if it could demonstrate some form of harm to the state, he added.
40% : Meanwhile, it's possible that the federal government could pass a law preventing states from banning abortion.
39% : This question is urgent because the justices, by overturning Roe, handed states the power to allow or ban abortion, leaving the procedure available only in a patchwork of states.
36% : The paper discusses a case from 1975, in which the Supreme Court overruled a lower court regarding the publication of an advertisement in a Virginia newspaper that encouraged students at the University of Virginia -- where abortion was illegal in the state at the time -- to travel to New York to obtain an abortion.

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