When a law is passed, isn't there a requirement to do a cost analysis to let the

[Baitball Blogger]

public know how it's going to bite their pocket? So, with this anti-choice law passed in Texas, why hasn't anyone sat down to do the numbers of the cost that the public must pay when you have young women unable to finish their education, and forced to work in low wage jobs that won't provide enough money to sustain their families? There must be a public cost for day care, hospital bills that go in arrears, etc.

I'm just saying, if someone could peg a number, a cost per taxpayer that will be incurred if Texas law spread, then maybe fiscal conservatives would dig their heels in and stop talking through their assholes.

[Turbineguy]

1. Not for republicans.

It would prevent them from doing harm. That's not fair.

[Pantagruel]

2. For years

I've been calling for a comprehensive cost analysis of overturning Roe.
No one seems interested in a topic deemed "unseemly".

[underpants]

3. Traffic lights

The saying goes that you can’t get a traffic light put at an intersection until someone dies there.
I’m afraid that may be the case here too.

[LeftInTX]

4. They did one

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

The bill would prohibit a physician from knowingly performing or inducing an abortion if the physician has determined there is a detectable fetal heartbeat or failing to perform a test to detect a fetal heartbeat. The physician would be required to use a test to determine a fetal heartbeat.

The physician would not be required to record certain information if a physician believes a medical emergency exists that prevents compliance with the provisions of the bill. If a physician performs or induces an abortion under medical emergency circumstances, the physician would be required to make written notations in the pregnant woman's medical record. The physician would also be required to maintain a copy of a document in the physician's practice records. In a existing monthly report that a physician must provide to the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), the physician would be required to report whether an abortion was performed or induced because of a medical emergency and any medical condition of the pregnant woman that required the abortion and whether the physician performed or induced the abortion under medical emergency circumstances.

The bill would allow for private civil enforcement actions by certain persons, other than an officer or employee of a state or local governmental entity in this state, in response to violations of the provisions of the bill.

HHSC and the Texas Medical Board indicated that any cost to implement provisions of the bill would be minimal and can be absorbed within available resources.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/fiscalnotes/pdf/SB00008F.pdf#navpanes=0

[spanone]

5. The bill wasn't even debated in the scotus, as far as I can tell.

[relayerbob]

6. No