Re the Texas abortion law question which a quick internet search did not answer
In particular the provision allowing unaffiliated non-gov't parties (bounty hunters, vigilantes, crazy people, Bible thumpers, religious zealots who text Jesus, whoever) to enforce the ban, where is their standing under law? How are they a harmed party if a woman seeks medical opinions and a medical procedure? Other than prurient, what is their interest in a woman's medical condition, which presumably is not available to fucking strangers?
thanks.
I'll hang-up and listen.
Thank you for listening. /sound of cash register/
The pregnant woman is not the one being sued - she's exempt.
The person who drove her, the clergy or Planned Parenthood or neighbor who advised her?! They can all be sued.
The standing is purely that established by the law itself. We'll see if that holds up.
But a problem, among many problems, is that theoretically every woman (pregnant or not) who calls Uber, or walks into a church, or a medical clinic, or picks up a phone to call whomever, puts at legal risk an Uber driver, member of the clergy, nurse or doctor, or neighbor phone answerer, for what? Potentially engaging with a woman who might be pregnant and you might say the wrong thing?
Fucking crazy law that to its logical end will make all Texans suspect of something.
The Lone Ranger was right to wear a mask.
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