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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnder this new law, you can actually sue Gov. Greg Abbott for trying to kill your unborn child.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/3/2050023/-Vigilantism-Works-Both-Ways-Any-Texan-Can-Sue-Greg-Abbott-Right-Now...
Every pregnant person in Texas, who could catch Covid, is at risk of losing their baby if they get sick.
Greg Abbott is purposely, and with forethought and intent, aiding and abetting Covid into possibly causing pregnancies to abort. Why would he do this? Doesn't matter, as it turns out.
There is no real legal standard involved in filing one of these suits. Neither does a plaintiff require any kind of standing (besides being a Texan) in order to file suit. And no pregnancy has to actually be ended, in order to file suit.
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There is no consequence to losing these cases.
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And it needn't be Covid as the cause of one's suspicion of intent. There are any number of ways to turn this law against the monsters who enacted it, from environmental regulations, to economic justice pretty much anything at all which one could suspect is intended to abort a pregnancy, is just cause to file suit under this law.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)lawsuits all over the place for all sorts of stupid shit.
The other night on MSNBC Neal Katyal made a good point...
"This SCOTUS ruling is an opened Pandoras box of trouble for the GOP. For example,
Neal Katyal: 'States like NY can now create "private lawsuits" against people who carry firearms for any reason'".
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)Does the woman have to be Texan? What determines a Texan? If you once lived there but moved recently are you still a Texan? If you just moved to the state are you a Texan? How long must residency be before you are a Texan? If the woman is visiting and she gets an abortion past 6 weeks can you still file suit? Can you file suit against a former Texan woman who just left the state a day ago, 2 days, a week a month? Does the embryo have to be conceived in Texas? Does the father have to be Texan?
So many rediculus useless questions over an unenforceable, religious, inhuman and rediculus law. It's almost as if it were designed just to harass women.