Timely post. I'm working on a chapter for my forthcoming book, "The Cybertraps of Choice: Privacy and Pregnancy in a Post-Roe World," that specifically looks at state efforts to suppress information about reproductive health. A 2004 SCOTUS regarding COPA should be dispositive but ...
Some one will sue to stop it. Texas will loose and appeal to federal court, which will allow it because Texas. Then the stupid crap all the way to SCOTUS.
Unfortunately many don't abortion disproportionately affects populations of racial minorities in the US, particularly with blacks, and in many other countries, it is used as a firm if eugenics to prevent people with Down syndrome from existing. Is a life with Down syndrome not worth living?
How many right wing Texan males wifes, daughters, mistresses have to die before they reverse the laws? Or pro-choicers -preferably #libertarian - just replace them...
The GOP isn’t a political party. How long is it going to take for US women (let alone men) to notice the GOP is the ENEMY? They’d prefer seeing a 9 yr-old girl die giving birth to her rapist’s baby than allow her to take a pill. They would rather a woman die of sepsis than get an abortion. WTF?
If we had a functioning Supreme Court, the Texas bill wouldn't survive. But with the Court we have, all bets are off regarding how many of our civil rights, including free speech, are going to be "interpreted" very narrowly if not outright thrown out, regardless what's in the Constitution.
This is clearly a bill unburdened by thoughts of constitutionality, and there’s a lot to say about the speech aspects of this bill. But the madness of the “The Women and Child Safety Act” doesn’t stop there. Let’s look at a few more ways that it’s insane…
2. It bans possessing abortion pills unless you’re a pregnant woman taking them or someone who has them "for purposes of entrapping a person" … Yet authorities enforce the law, only private lawsuits can.
So is this saying private citizens can conduct abortion-pill entrapment schemes?
3. It says that if someone bringing a lawsuit can't determine which manufacturer made the pill that's the basis for their action, all abortion pill manufacturers can be held liable. (This is not how US law works)
4. It says it would apply "to the use of an abortion-inducing drug by a resident of this state, regardless of where the use of the drug occurs." (This is not how US law works.)
5. It says that following current legal precedents — including any orders finding this law unenforceable — or federal laws is no defense if those precedents or laws are ever vacated, repealed, etc., *no matter that they were in effect "when the cause of action accrued" *
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don't think for a second this would be limited to "abortion" once established
This crap is getting so damned old.
Fascist World makes so much sense.
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And that's just the beginning.
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So is this saying private citizens can conduct abortion-pill entrapment schemes?
It just needs to be safe.
I love how the bill admits it is wholly unenforceable.
Texas: That's going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience!
"Oh really?"
Texas: Yeah, see, we're just going to pass it anyway.
"Oh, is that how it works?"
Texas: It is now!