ACLU statement

[dalton99a]

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has not responded to our emergency request to block Texas’ radical new 6-week abortion ban, SB8. The law now takes effect.

Access to almost all abortion has just been cut off for millions of people. The impact will be immediate and devastating.

The law bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy — before many people even know they’re pregnant.

The result is that many Texans will be forced to carry pregnancies against their will.

Private individuals — including anti-abortion activists with no connection to patients — can now sue ANYONE who they believe is providing abortion or assisting someone in accessing abortion after six weeks. This could include:

▪️ Health care workers
▪️ Clergy
▪️ Rideshare drivers

The law doesn’t just allow these lawsuits — it actively encourages private individuals to act as bounty hunters by awarding them at least $10,000 if they are successful.

This is a racial and economic justice catastrophe.

Decades of racism and structural inequality within the health care system have left Black and Latinx people and anyone trying to make ends meet with few alternatives to the cruel reality that Texas politicians have created.

This is a full-scale assault on patients, our health care providers, and our support systems.

This abortion ban is blatantly unconstitutional. We won’t stop fighting until it’s blocked.

If you’re pregnant, we want you to know there is a network of abortion funds and support networks that will do everything in their power to help you get the information and care you need.

Go to needabortion.org to find out more, including how to contact an abortion fund.

[IcyPeas]

1. I'm thankful they are on it

From above:

This is a full-scale assault on patients, our health care providers, and our support systems.

This abortion ban is blatantly unconstitutional. We won’t stop fighting until it’s blocked.

If you’re pregnant, we want you to know there is a network of abortion funds and support networks that will do everything in their power to help you get the information and care you need.

Go to needabortion.org to find out more, including how to contact an abortion fund.

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

[Hekate]

3. Gods bless the ACLU and Planned Parenthood

[PortTack]

4. Think I'll go over to the ACLU and make an extra donation this month

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[lapfog_1]

7. if we set up a massive fund to transport

women out of the Texiban state... can they sue us and Texas and win? And if they do win, can Texas courts collect?

I mean we don't personally help anyone, we just set up a fund which women in Texas (and soon other red states) can access to fly to a blue state, terminate their pregnancy, and fly home.

Will that count as aiding the abortion? Suppose we set up the fund with bitcoin or some other non-transparent money?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Those are called abortion funds, they already exist, and you can donate to them.

[orleans]

8. who is paying for that $10,000 bounty these freaks are offering?

someone needs to start paying attention to the suicide rate increases for the state of fucking texas and any other red state that pulls this shit

[Comfortably_Numb]

9. Taxpayers like me, methinks, who support a woman's right to control her body.

I hate this *ucking state. In less than a year I can retire and get out of this dystopian shithole state.

[Frasier Balzov]

11. It's a money judgment which can be entered against any "enabler."

Such a money judgment is characterized by the law's critics as a bounty because the law confers standing to sue in favor of anyone who knows that someone has acted as an "enabler" of the prohibited abortion.

Proponents hope that by transforming the anti-abortion crusade into civil actions for money between private parties, the law will withstand Constitutional challenge. (Since it's not a criminal penalty, and it isn't the state bringing the case.)

[FBaggins]

14. The abortion clinic

That’s part of the twist that gets the law past an initial challenge.

Normally, you can sue the government official charged with enforcing a new law… but there isn’t one in this case. But this wouldn’t be enforced until some individuals start suing clinics… with the clinic having to pay costs plus at least $10k to their accuser.

Can’t see how it stands in the long run… but it could take years to get it undone

[Demobrat]

10. The Mexican border towns

are going to be doing a thriving business in abortions. We’re going to have to help them do it safely. Not pretend it’s not happening.

[Submariner]

12. Are any companies owned by Democrats that could

hurt Texas economy if moved out of state? I’ve read some companies are leaving California for tax free Texas. Is this what their employees want? Rule by racist evangelical assholes.

[Lonestarblue]

13. I don't understand how the SC could let this law go into effect.

Until they overturn it, Roe is federal law and and under it any woman has the right to an abortion up to viability without undue burdens created by a state. This new Texas law is such a burden that it effectively outlaws abortion in the state. If this stands, every other red state will pass the same law, effectively making abortion only available in blue states. I’m sure red states will then find a way to make it illegal for their residents to travel to another state for an abortion.

[LisaL]

16. How many of the Supremes were appointed by Trump?

NT

[LeftInTX]

19. Row V Wade is not a federal law

It's a 1973 Supreme Court decision.

I know there is a saying, "Row V Wade is the law of the land", but technically it isn't...
To the best of my knowledge, there are no federal statutes that protect abortion or right to choose.


The Supreme Court can whittle away at their old (1973) decision, by tweaking it with such decisions as, "There was nothing in Roe V Wade decision that stated anything about the number of weeks of gestation"...
They have done this with the 20 week gestational period...

[DFW]

18. Opus Dei on the Supreme Court has just revealed itself

In fact, it is really Opus Diaboli

[bluestarone]

20. Maybe the SC. NOT hearing this opens this up for

A JUDGE to block it? (maybe not it's Texas)

[MagickMuffin]

21. "OUR BODIES OUR CHOICE"

AMIRITE.

[live love laugh]

22. How TF does a rideshare driver know @ 6 weeks pregnant?