TRENTON (LifeSiteNews) — The New Jersey Legislature has passed a travel warning to alert residents about the difficulty they may have getting abortions when traveling to other states.
Assembly Bill 4915 would establish a so-called “reproductive health travel advisory” notifying residents about the “extent to which states within the United States restrict access to reproductive healthcare services,” i.e., the murder of the unborn, through information about the abortion restrictions, funding options, or lack thereof in every other U.S. state.
States would be categorized as blue for no restrictions, yellow for “increased caution” due to “restricted access to [so-called] reproductive medical care that could result in civil or criminal prosecution,” and red with a warning to “reconsider travel” due to “extremely restricted access” resulting in not only prosecution but also the supposed danger of “adverse medical outcome” (a common false charge against pro-life states).
Pregnancy Help News notes that the bill has been making its way through the legislature since last year and gained final approval this summer, although it still awaits a signature from Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy.
New Jersey’s current leadership is not only exceptionally protective of abortion but exceptionally hostile to those who disagree. Other bills before the legislature this year include measures to open pregnancy centers to punishment for so-called “deceptive or misleading advertising”; and prevent the state from cooperating with investigations or extradition requests relating to violations of other states’ pro-life laws. New Jersey is also one of four states to petition the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove all remaining REMS safety requirements monitoring adverse events of the abortion pill mifepristone.
Additionally, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to review the state’s efforts to legally harass pro-life pregnancy centers.
As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, New Jersey Democrat Attorney General Matt Platkin issued a consumer alert in 2022 branding pro-life crisis pregnancy centers as “seek(ing) to prevent people from accessing comprehensive reproductive health care,” i.e., abortion and other anti-life practices. It was later revealed that his office collaborated with America’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, on the final draft of the alert.
First Choice Women’s Resource Centers sued Platkin over its efforts to force the nonprofit to “produce extensive documentation” without reasonable cause and under threat of punishment for “possible violations of ‘the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act’” in its promotion of Abortion Pill Reversal, a safe method of counteracting abortion pills by administering extra progesterone, the natural hormone that mifepristone blocks, which has a success rate over 60 percent.
Since Roe v. Wade’s fall, 12 states have banned all or most abortions. But the abortion lobby continues to work feverishly to cancel out those deterrents via deregulated interstate distribution of abortion pills, legal protection and financial support of interstate abortion travel, constructing new abortion facilities near borders shared by pro-life and pro-abortion states, making liberal states sanctuaries for those who want to evade or violate the laws of more pro-life neighbors, and embedding abortion “rights” in state constitutions.
Such amendments had great success in the first two years following Dobbs, further convincing many that America was solidifying in a more pro-abortion direction. But that too began to change in 2024, when pro-lifers defeated pro-abortion ballot initiatives in three of the 10 states who had them on the ballot.
