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They devised a weird, convoluted system for enforcing it. instead of saying that the state would just directly punish people who perform an abortion or women who get one, the new law instead kind of takes the state out of it in a way. it creates instead a weird vigilante system whereby anyone in the country, any random anti-abortion activist, any random individual, thanks to this new law in texas, will have standing to sue anyone in texas who aids or abets a woman getting an abortion. they can sue not only a doctor who actually does an abortion, they can sue anybody who works in any capacity a...

Is the entity that gets sued, the state will then get to use that as a pretext to immediately shut that clinic down. what texas has devised is a bizarre, dystopian, vigilante system for hunting women in texas who seek abortions. a vigilante system to effectively ban abortion and shut down all abortion providers in the state, not to mention terrorizing women who are seeking the procedure. but they're using not the direct power of the state, but instead anti-abortion activists as their vigilantes and the state court system as their means of doing it. it is weird. it is deliberately weird. and as...

Texas who seek abortions. a vigilante system to effectively ban abortion and shut down all abortion providers in the state, not to mention terrorizing women who are seeking the procedure. but they're using not the direct power of the state, but instead anti-abortion activists as their vigilantes and the state court system as their means of doing it. it is weird. it is deliberately weird. and as our friend dahlia lithwick explains at slate.com today, it is a quote, convoluted system that texas republicans devised on purpose specifically to prevent federal courts from blocking this law. and so f...

Abortion timeline even faster. it was may of this year when texas republicans passed their six-week ban, meaning you can't get an abortion after you've been pregnant for six weeks or more. but even though other states have passed six-week bans as well and they've all been struck down, texas did theirs differently. they devised a weird, convoluted system for enforcing it. instead of saying that the state would just directly punish people who perform an abortion or women who get one, the new law instead kind of takes the state out of it in a way. it creates instead a weird vigilante system where...