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Pregnancy, before many women even know they're pregnant, but it also provides no exceptions for rape or incest. and it relies on citizens, regular citizens just like you and me to enforce it, basically letting them sue anybody who helps a woman get an abortion and awards them ten stacks if they succeed. >> the most pernicious thing about the texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out -- anyway. and it just seems -- i know this sounds ridiculous, almost un-american what we're talking about. >> president biden says the justice department is looking at the...

Well. the law banning abortions virtually banning them six weeks into pregnancy provides no exceptions for rape or incest and empowers citizens to enforce the law via civil lawsuits awarded with $10,000 bounties if they succeed and no penalty costs if they don't. this makes it harder to challenge a law rather than a law enforced by the state. conservative lawmakers in south dakota and florida are working on a blueprint for copycat measures. they've sparked hearings on the texas law and on emergency rulings made by the justices without any oral arguments. this is what's known as the shadow dock...