S.B. 8 offers private citizens a $10,000 bounty if they successfully sue anyone “aiding or abetting” abortion-seeking patients in Texas.
S.B. 8 effectively bans abortion at six weeks, a time at which many people don’t yet realize they’re pregnant. The bill is more extreme than other laws in states like Alabama and Ohio due to a clause thatprivate citizens to sue anyone “aiding or abetting” abortion-seeking patients in Texas.
After the district court and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit shut down their attempts to block the law while the lawsuit proceeds, the groups filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court.Texas’ ban on abortion at six weeks will force the state’s 7 million women of reproductive age to travel to neighboring states like Louisiana and Oklahoma for the procedure. Those states have a total of only eight abortion clinics.
“I often say, ‘Think about handcuffs rather than hemorrhaging,’” Ford told HuffPost in a conversation last week. “It’s not so much that people will have back-alley abortions and be bleeding out in the way that you hear horror stories pre-Roe, but that people will be interrogated by law enforcement, could be arrested and criminalized for the outcome of their pregnancies.
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