Yes, but that’s different than the abortion bans. The abortion bans involve State A making it a crime for a resident to have an abortion in State B without anything happening in State A. That would be like State A convicting someone of rape for having sex in State B, where it was legal. I’m not saying that some state wouldn’t try to bring it up- but it’s very different.
I was responding specifically to Whack-a-Mole’s comment of Full Faith and Credit statement and saying that is not an absolute. My assertion was
It always amazing me when there a (usually domestic) high-profile murder case & the evidence shows that the spouse/suspect, while logged in googles things like, “How to dispose of a body” or “What saw to cut human bones” or “how long until a dead body begins to smell”. Log out, use private browsing, clear your history. There should be a ‘moron’ enhancement at sentencing time for those idjits!
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Just go back to the early 2000s
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That communication device in your pocket was used primarily to make phone calls & talk to someone on the other end. Unlike with texts, there will be a call log history that I called you but no details of what we talked about.
Cyber Monday became a thing because everyone had really slow dial-up at home but those fancy-schmancy, fast T1 lines at work. It was a lot faster for you to do your shopping at work, even if you were wasting bossman’s time. Or when HS kids still went to the library to do their research, again because it was faster than your home AOL dialup - Searching for that out-of-state clinic on the local library’s computer won’t show up in your browsing history when they search your phone. It ain’t rocket surgery if you stop to take a minute & think about it.
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Can you link to some proof of this?
You would have to have a complainant with due standing to bring charges. That is a pretty high bar. Realistically, if you go to another country and engage in terroristical activities that threaten to harm Americans or countries that are close allies, prosecution would be likely upon your return. Most other situations are pretty hard to prosecute.
I thought people get charged with sex tourism all of the time.
Yes, but that’s a US law for US citizens and residents.
AIUI, when you cross state lines within the US and have sexual relations, the federal age of consent (18 years) also applies. It doesn’t matter if your under-18 sex partner is over the state age of consent in both your state and their state: if you traveled interstate to your encounter, the feds’ rules take precedence.
But there isn’t a federal ban on abortion (at present), or on gambling, so they don’t automatically become federal crimes if you cross state lines to do them. And yeah, that being the case I do not see how Texas or any other state can appeal to federal extraterritorial sexual exploitation prohibitions (i.e., traveling interstate or internationally to bonk a minor is verboten) as a precedent for its attempted “state sovereignty” restrictions on state residents traveling to obtain an abortion.
But then, IANAL so don’t take my word for it.
Why the “but”. That’s what I said originally.