Outside the Supreme Court on September 9. Photo: KENNY HOLSTON/KENNY HOLSTON/The New York Times It is the image of abortion bounty hunters that commands terror in Texas’s abortion law, now in effect for two weeks thanks to the Supreme Court. To anyone numbed to the unending anti-abortion laws being passed in red states, there’s the shocking prospect of totalitarian tattletales spying on uteruses, turning in anyone suspected to be complicit in an abortion after six weeks in exchange for cash.
For now, abortion is banned in Texas for anyone who, practically speaking, has an irregular period and doesn’t know if they’re pregnant in time, who makes their decision anytime after six weeks, or who is a minor who has to navigate the Texas court system to beg for an abortion without their guardians’ permission.
There’s another way that advocates for abortion rights in Texas can try to puncture SB8. The historian David Garrow, writing in the Houston Chronicle, argued that abortion providers should willfully break the law by openly providing an abortion after six weeks to return the ban to the Supreme Court on a more solid footing.
Grossman is more optimistic in the short term about the state-court challenges that are already underway, several of which seek to block anti-abortion activists who have promised to take full advantage of the law. She says the Texas Supreme Court could object to SB8 on multiple grounds — including the concern that the constitutional rights it likes, such as gun ownership, could be zeroed out if a law were written cleverly enough.
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irin Law meddling where ought not Does but molest the object sought, As when children the courts take End watching wars their parents make; Even less proper, some may beseech, That law would a private womb breach To serve a writ of sequestration Subject to corporal litigation.
irin The brazen EU countries, which the 'progressives' love to present as a role model, also disallow abortions after the first trimester, except for serious danger to the mother's health.
irin The PRC wants you to blame the Supreme Court - Here's what actual adults think, with law degrees: You blame the Texas Legislature, and you blame Congress, for being a bunch of losers, and failing to address yet another nation crisis, in this case women's rights.
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