of destroying life. there s growing fear in russia, the president vladimir putin may be preparing for a second military mobilization. lawmakers have voted to make it easier to draft conscripts and harder to evade military service. the new law would allow for the electronic delivery of call up papers and ban travel abroad for those eligible for the draft. anyone who ignores orders to report could be barred from getting a loan moving into a new apartment or driving a vehicle. alright let s go live to london and cnn s claire sebastian, so clear. take us through what s behind this and whether it signals another mobilization. well came. the kremlin is at pains to point out that this has nothing to do, they say with another wave of mobilization. this is simply aimed at modernizing the process fixing the mess, in the words of kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov of the last mobilization that started at the end of september last year. i think the fear in russia is one that many believe
criminal offense to travel to another state to get an abortion. there is historically in the supreme court a doctrine called the right to travel. brett kavanaugh in his concurring opinion says he just sort of volunteers, well, it clearly will be legal for women to travel to other states, but if you read the majority opinion it does suggest that states could ban travel. so that s a very much outstanding question and a very important one. you say it s outstanding. kavanaugh did write that, that it s not the controlling opinion here? by no means. it is not binding at all and, in fact, if you certainly read justice thomas concurrence and the majority opinion, it is certainly not resolved. and the logic of the majority opinion where he says the where justice alito says abortion isn t mentioned in the constitution, neither is travel. so if there is if it s not mentioned in the constitution
abortion rights still enact a decades old ban? what happens with abortion pills? where can they and can t they be mailed? what about the politics, can a republican congress with a republican president now move to restrict all abortions across the can country? what can democrats do to reverse this, if anything? at least ten states quickly moved to implement laws effectively banning abortions since friday, some happened with trigger laws, another five states expected to enact further laws limiting abortion and all 26 states have laws that indicate they could outlaw or set extreme limits on the procedure. there were some protests across the country over the weekend, they were largely peaceful. and as some states move to restrict abortion rights others are taking steps to protect access and funding. some major companies are pledging to provide support not just for employees, in some cases they re saying they re going to provide support for dependents in states where abortions are being o
state. and that s really what you see in the map here. the only the places where there s going to be a battle are places like michigan and wisconsin where you have democratic governors and republican legislators. i think the answer there is not resolved, but for the rest of it a democratic governor and democratic legislature abortion is going to be legal. so essentially it s going to be legal in the blue states and illegal in the red states. in florida there is a 15-week ban that could go into place so it may be allowed up and to a point. one of the big legal questions is punishment, right? punishment. what happens and this largely has to do with interstate travel, what happens if you are in texas and go to colorado for an abortion? well, this is the great unresolved question. if you read the statutes that are being passed in some of the states, not all of the states, like south dakota, like oklahoma, it does seem to be a
have women be able to get abortions in other states. is the act of paying for that travel a violation of the law? again, unresolved question. who gets to decide? well, it will probably be the state superior courts in these individual states, but it is very likely that these cases will return to the u.s. supreme court as well because they have enormous consequence for people s lives. mike pence says that he wants to see a national ban enacted. imagine a scenario where there s a republican congress and a republican president. could the republican congress say we ban abortions and the republican president sign that? that does appear to be possible. in a similar sense president biden has said if we have a democratic congress that is filibuster proof we could pass a legalization of abortion in the country. the whole notion of a congressional law, a law