An email raises another point:

“I’m pro-Roe– but this sounds quite weird. A bit of weirdness you didn’t go into:

“‘Internationally, pro-life red-staters may find travel and business dealings difficult among Europeans’

“But merely overturning Roe wouldn’t turn the U.S. into some weird outlier compared with European countries. Roe is the outlier. A constitutionally- (or, if one prefers, “constitutionally-” with scare quotes) mandated prohibition on any restriction of abortion for two trimesters and little constitutionally permissible space for regulation even in the third trimester– this is unique. The combination of extremely liberal abortion laws for six months and the constitutionalization of such laws isn’t some kind of requirement for OECD membership.

“Do, say, Germans find it uncomfortable to travel in Europe? Germany’s abortion law is much more restrictive than anything I’d expect to see in a post-Roe federal legal code, or in the post-Roe legal codes of any but a few states or jurisdictions such as Louisiana and Guam.

“As I said, I prefer the US approach here. But it’s silly to offer, as a defense of Roe, that it allows us to fit in with Europeans. (Well, it’d be silly even if its factual premise were true. But it’s even sillier since the premise is false.)”