Trust your government to regulate reproduction..

in texas •  3 years ago 

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I mean, I get the point of the analogies, and they are evocative. But draconian control of reproductive care is something that needs to be owned, so that those who push for it can be held accountable. Names and faces should be known.

Texas's bizarre anti-abortion bounty hunter law didn't spring from nowhere. It grew directly out of the phenomenon of "trigger laws" devised in many states to ban abortion the instant the Supreme Court allows them. We all assumed that this would require a formal overturn of Roe v. Wade, but perhaps not.

The text of the TX law actually says that the legality of abortion according to Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey can't be used by defendants against the $10k (or more) civil suits brought by bounty hunters if those cases are overturned by the time the civil suit resolves, which means that not only was Texas able to pass a clearly unconstitutional law, but people can't even defend themselves against that law if SCOTUS overturns their constitutional rights in time.

Which, given how SCOTUS is rushing toward that goal at breakneck speed, means that it doesn't really matter if TX's law is unconstitutional right now. The refusal of the highest court in the land to even review that case on the merits effectively means that Roe is already overturned.

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