Another abortion bill awaits Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's signature. Abortion rights advocates say it's

[TexasTowelie]

Another abortion bill awaits Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature. Abortion rights advocates say it’s just as alarming.



With all eyes on the Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, another bill regulating the use and distribution of abortion medications — and creating a jailable offense for those who violate it — has made its way to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.

If signed into law, Senate Bill 4 could have unique consequences for Borderland communities like El Paso, where the abortion pill misoprostol can be bought just across the bridge at Mexican pharmacies.

Under the bill’s language, “any act of giving, selling, dispensing, administering, transferring possession, or otherwise providing or prescribing an abortion-inducing drug” would be punishable with state jail felonies, which carry fines of up to $10,000 and between 180 days and two years of imprisonment.

Texans living near Mexico have a long tradition of traveling south to access abortion services.

“If you’re living or working in the borderlands, you know how frequently people find ways to meet their health care needs by going over borders or seeking other ways to get medications,” said Farah Diaz-Tello, senior counsel and legal director for If/When/How, a national reproductive justice nonprofit. “Abortion is no different than that.”

Read more: https://elpasomatters.org/2021/09/07/another-abortion-bill-awaits-texas-gov-greg-abbotts-signature-abortion-rights-advocates-say-its-just-as-alarming/

[carpetbagger]

1. At least for the time being there's a specific federal fix

Easy enough to issue a directive to CBP not to interdict or refer to the state.

[Otto_Harper]

2. This is just a distraction, and it's working

The real issue is that the Reptilikkkan coup is now strongly underway. These efforts, while hair-rasing on their own, are really just components of the takeover plan, now firmly in progress. We ignore the big picture at our own peril. And the peril of our country and of all future generations.

[2naSalit]

3. So true!

Welcome to DU!

[LeftInTX]

4. Bill was authored by state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., D-Brownsville......

No words...

[yellowdogintexas]

5. It looks like you can buy it for yourself but you can't transfer it to another

person. So you can't go over the border, purchase the drug and give it to your friend when you return to Texas.

It is still a long long way from much of Texas to the border cities. One's only solution appears to be traveling to Mexico, purchasing the drug and using it - not giving or selling it.

A physician, pharmacist, Planned Parenthood or other medical worker could not travel to Mexico and buy a supply to be given to the woman.

Disgusting.





I am sure it is disguised as "protection" for the woman against harm from the "inferior quality" of the drug obtained in Mexico.