Elie Mystal, a legal expert, says . . .

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28. Protect them from the crazies or from the law the other Texas crazies have passed?

If it's the former, that's where law enforcement comes in. As for the latter, the law allows people who assist a woman in any way to be sued, but doesn't have a penalty for the woman herself. That's their sneaky way of weaseling it through the courts. They're giving a right to private citizens to harass other citizens with a cash prize at the end, but not taking away rights in the way the damn thing is worded. I think technically, the clinics could probably continue to do abortions, but they'd be hit with multiple $10,000 lawsuits for all employees for each procedure. Effectively, they've been drummed out of providing abortion services because no organization can be on the hook for that amount of money paid out for each procedure. I could be wrong, but that's my understanding of it.