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While I'm not sure the idea is practical, I would be curious to see it play out.
What starts as a few cases of women disappearing would become a pattern. Allegations of abduction would be leveled as pretense to seek, arrest and prosecute all that help them leave. Meanwhile, by the power of the Internet, it would be quickly found out where these women fled to. An underground counter-stalking network would emerge, seeking to steal back the women. Eventually, another civil war might break out, this time over women's right to control their own fate.
History might not repeat, but it may well rhyme.
Just a couple things...
Of course a modern underground rail road would function different than the one 300 years ago.
Legal adults don't need to notify anyone that they are moving. Ya is a shitty thing to do but a simple letter or phone call after is fine for loved ones. Pro birthers have no idea how to actually stop abortions that doesn't involve progressive actions like comprehensive sex education, cheap and free contraception, paternity leave, raising the standards of living, etc... Because their goals are to subject women and to ensure that there's always a poor, unhealthy, uneducated, and subservient population. Outside of having check points in and out of the state and knowing every women's current pregnancy status it's impossible.
Multiple normal states have already passed laws that protect women from any persecution for laws restricting their bodily freedoms. Mine included. And Ya they can try to take the women back but theres no way to tell why a woman left. It's way easier to move a willing person over someone who is surrounded by a supportive community. I'd imagine this organization would help LGBTQ+ people escape as well.
Certainly, but I suspect there will be parallels. I consider it important to understand the past and apply that knowledge to the present to predict the future.
Of course not. But you know as well as I do how important personal rights (particularly women's) are to the party of Law and Order. If women started fleeing, they'd find some line of arguing why this couldn't possibly be them exercising their human rights.
My worry is that the other states (or rather the unhinged citizens thereof that create such legislation that would warrant saving women from them) may escalate this ideological conflict. We've seen the hateful incitement of violence happen already. It's not legal to storm Congress either.
If I don't respect your laws, believe that they're "wrong" anyways and disobeying them is right and just, and think that I can get away with it, what's to stop me?
Obviously evil librul indoctrination! The same people believing that the female body "has a way of shutting that down" and that a woman's proper place is in the kitchen probably don't respect the woman's actual motives, if they consider it an evil plot. As you rightly pointed out:
If they don't believe on a woman's right to self-determination, none of the good and legal reasons women might want to determine their own lives will matter to them.
And that is exactly what the opposition would need to be: a stronghold, united in the purpose of being a safe haven for all the oppressed.
All these parallels to slavery aren't an accident. Like the Railroad mentioned in the premise, I worry that an effort to liberate women from the stranglehold of a society trying to subjugate them, yet depending on them, would spark a similar counter-effort to recapture them. In the hypothetical that such a modern Railroad would be created, this Railroad and all its supporters would similarly need to be prepared for a violent response. I wish freedom could triumph peacefully, but history suggests poor precedents for that.
That's not an attempt to dissuade, mind you. I'm all for it. Liberate the enslaved and oppressed from their oppressors and have a plan to defend them.
Everyone is under surveillance all the time these days. There would have to be some very secure way for women to contact any organization trying to help without raising any flags that could be used to tip off the police. This would be a real challenge.
they would have to make real phone calls! *gasp.
International phone calls are under surveillance and the data collected includes domestic calls. Agencies have been abusing this to monitor domestic calls since at least the 2000s.
Article from 2013: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/surveillance-timeline
More recent: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/fbi-misused-foreign-surveillance-law-280k-times-to-snoop-on-people-in-the-us/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/us-senate-and-biden-administration-shamefully-renew-and-expand-fisa-section-702-0?language=en
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