GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT
Women's Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court correctly overturned Roe v. Wade and reinstated the right of states to protect innocent, unborn children. As for you women? Just calm down. Stop overreacting. You won't need abortions since you won't be raped anymore in Texas because I'm banning rape! Sure, your lives are in danger from a back alley abortion, but think about it...it could be worse.
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Texas law, known as SB 8, prevents government officials from enforcing the ban, instead giving private citizens that power by enabling them to sue anyone who provides or "aids or abets" an abortion after six weeks and if successful collect a $10,000 reward, described by critics as a "bounty."
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Abortion opponents in Texas asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by an organization that provides financial assistance to women seeking abortions challenging a Texas law that allows private citizens to sue anyone who facilitates an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.
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Mistie Sharp, former state senator Sadie Weldon and Ashley Maxwell said in their motion in Austin federal court that the plaintiffs - the directors of a Texas abortion fund called the Stigma Relief Fund, and a donor to two other funds - faced no imminent threat of being sued.
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The 2021 Texas law, known as SB 8, prevents government officials from enforcing the ban, instead giving private citizens that power by enabling them to sue anyone who provides or "aids or abets" an abortion after six weeks and if successful collect a $10,000 reward, described by critics as a "bounty."
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The private enforcement mechanism was crafted to avoid direct legal challenges before the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health overturning the right to abortion established five decades earlier in Roe v. Wade. Since that decision, a Texas law criminalizing all abortion except to save the mother's life has taken effect.