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Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways for Abortion Appointments
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this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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If you think laws cannot get more ridiculous, Texas proves you wrong.
How are they going to enforce this? Police patrols on highways stopping each and every car with a female in it that is of "eglible age" and submit her to a mandatory pregnancy test before she is allowed to leave the state - only if test is negative? And put those who happen to be positive into a "pregnancy protection ward" or something?
It's civilian enforced. So say a person overhears a woman telling her friend that they are leaving tomorrow to drive to another state for an abortion. The person can sue her (and anyone helping her) for violating this law. If they win, they get a chunk of cash and the "satisfaction" of knowing they are oppressing women.
It's designed to not only deter women from getting abortions, but to deter people from helping them. If you were in Texas and a friend asked you to drive her to get an abortion in another state, you'd need to weigh the possibility of being sued. You might decide it was too much of a risk for you and not help. And that's what they are hoping to achieve.
So what I'm hearing is that we need to start some campaign to make new language for abortion that will obfuscate whether you're going for an abortion or going for tourism reasons to a state that will help. Which states around texas will still offer medical care to a pregnant woman?
I'm sure that will spring up, but it shouldn't be necessary. Also, all it takes is a woman telling one friend who either turns on her or who spills the beans to someone else.
Ahh, the good old Blockwart method. Worked well in Nazi Germany. Just in case you had doubts where the Republicans are getting their ideas from.