The state is leading the push to ban abortions outright across America and overturn women’s rights….
The nation’s highest court made no effort to stop the law from taking effect and watering down the historic Roe vs Wade ruling…..
The law effectively eliminates the guarantee in Roe v. Wade and subsequent Supreme Court decisions that women have a right to end their pregnancies before viability, abortion providers said, and that states may not impose undue burdens on that decision.
The Texas law “unquestionably contravenes this Court’s precedent … with abortions after six weeks banned throughout Texas — something that has never been allowed to occur in any other state of the nation in the decades since Roe,” said a brief filed by abortion providers and their allies….
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About 85 to 90 percent of people who obtain abortions in Texas are at least six weeks into pregnancy — many women don’t realize they are pregnant that soon — meaning this law would prohibit nearly all abortions in the state.
“Patients will have to travel out of state — in the middle of a pandemic — to receive constitutionally guaranteed health care. And many will not have the means to do so,” Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), said in a statement. “It’s cruel, unconscionable, and unlawful.”
In response Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said the Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction to act against the law at this point, and that any legal challenges would have to wait until someone actually brought a civil action against an abortion provider or someone who aids the woman.
Republicans have set up a whistleblower website for people who want to finger people who in some way assisted in an abortion. Some of the information entered in this website might not be correct, but may be from people who instead just want to embarrass or financially harm someone.
https://prolifewhistleblower.com/
This is an electronic form of “denouncing your neighbor” – very Nazi and Stalin like.
Good old Texas, when they aren’t freezing people to death, or letting them freely carry a gun into the Walmart, they are encouraging each other to rat their neighbor out.
Little Preppy Brett Kavanaugh must be so proud.
Update
The US Supreme Court back’s Texas law 5-4 in the first watering down of Roe vs Wade in a long while…..
In other Texas news, it is now legal in that state to openly carry a firearm in public without a permit or training.
Texas has seen a significant increase in the number of shooting this year. I don’t know if this law was an attempt to reduce the gun violence.
Texas Republicans really want to rid themselves of that pesky moderate vote huh?