Texas puts a $10,000 on anyone getting or administering an abortion

[Swede]

Holy s—! Texas Republicans have placed a bounty on our heads

They are giving away $10,000 to anyone who reports a woman for getting an abortion or a clinic for administering one

This is unspeakably evil

Link to tweet

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[MineralMan]

1. Is there a link or something that

substantiates this? Some context for this tweet?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Agreed, that would be handy.

Sometimes people tweet things after reading them ... without actually really understanding what they read.

Not saying it's not true in fact given its TX, I'd not be all that surprised.

[Swede]

3. Sorry. Both links are in the thread.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/us/abortion-law-regulations-texas.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/12/republicans-now-stand-lawlessness-disorder/

[Bettie]

4. Here it is!

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-law-opens-abortion-bounty-220734997.html

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/18/texas-heartbeat-bill-abortions-law/

Family members, abortion funds, rape crisis counselors and other medical professionals could be open to lawsuits, under the broad language in the bill, according to legal experts and physicians who opposed the measure. People who sued would be awarded at least $10,000, as well as costs for attorney’s fees, if they won.

“Every citizen is now a private attorney general,” Blackman said. “You can have random people who are against abortion start suing tomorrow.”

John Seago, with Texas Right to Life, an anti-abortion organization that supported the bill, said he doubted there would be an “overwhelming number of cases on day one.”

Lawsuits might be filed by anti-abortion activists who learned through talking to the woman that she got an abortion after six weeks.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. And another...

An antiabortion law in Texas will soon allow any U.S. citizen to sue Texas-based abortion clinics, doctors, and anyone who aids in an abortion. If successful, the petitioner, who does not have to reside in Texas, will receive an $10,000 award and the cost for attorney’s fees. Pro-choice advocates worry that this cash prize may create a new cottage industry of aggressive antiabortion bounty hunters.

The provision, which passed the Texas state legislature this spring, is part of a larger antiabortion bill which will ban all abortions after a doctor detects a fetal heartbeat, usually around the six-week mark.

Many don’t know they are pregnant before six weeks. For most people, a six-week ban would stop access to abortion just two weeks after a missed period.

The law is set to take effect on Sept. 1, and lawyers for abortion clinics are unsure of how to rebuke it because the government isn’t the enforcing body. In the past, six-week bans in other states have all been eventually found unconstitutional as they’ve risen through the legal system.

New Texas law opens up abortion bounty hunting
https://fortune.com/2021/07/09/texas-abortion-law-bounty-hunting/

[Lovie777]

6. This can't be legal ..

Red States are moving further and further away from Democracy and becoming more of a "dictatorship".

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. It's currently legal. But it's definitely unconstitutional. Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit.

[flying_wahini]

7. The horrible white men that run Texas have to have SomEtHiNg to tell Evangelicals!

Red meat for the wolves.

[Maraya1969]

8. Start accusing the creepy anti-abortion Qanon politicians. Make up shit.

Make them have to defend themselves against your unsubstantiated claims.

Any woman that is behind this needs to have a legal suit against her accusing her of getting an abortion. Make her prove that she didn't have one.

Hell, make up shit about the man; they are paying for these abortions that their girlfriends are getting.

I learned this shit from that chick that accused Al Franken.

[Walleye]

9. Sure sounds a lot like Communist China

[luckone]

10. ???? Abortions are very legal in Communist China .

Abortion has been legal in China since 1953, although sex-selective abortions were banned starting in 1994.
Also China was the first country to approve mifepristone, the abortion-inducing drug also known as RU-486, and by the late 1990s it was widely available---by prescription

[Walleye]

11. I'm speaking of citizens reporting on their fellow citizens about their reproduction

China did it only for an opposite reason. Neighbors reported on neighbors who reported to have more than one pregnancy. Now I know that has been changed. I am speaking of getting your neighbors to rat you out for, Making your own decision about your own body. Just being allowed to get an abortion is not necessarily reproductive rights. In my opinion. A woman’s pregnancy is nobody else’s business.