Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently signed an executive order on Wednesday to prevent Michigan’s law enforcement from helping prosecute people who come from out-of-state to receive an abortion. Barbara McQuade, a former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and current professor of law at the University of Michigan, discusses why the new laws on abortion represent a challenge to the way states work together under other criminal prosecutions. 

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Barbara McQuade, now a professor of law at the University of Michigan, and former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan

Additional voices, in order of appearance:

State Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Texas)

span.org/video/?521693-6/senators-travel-abortion-services-part-3">Sen. James Lankford (R-Oklahoma)

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada)

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA):

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