AUSTIN – Texas abortion funds filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks protections to resume financing people’s out-of-state travel for the procedure. Most funds,...
While the suit centers on the funds’ activities, it could also help clarify looming legal questions about the state’s abortion bans, such as whether people can be penalized for helping someone get the procedure across state lines.who is up for a third term in November
, has pledged to aggressively enforce the state’s anti-abortion bans. A patchwork of laws are in play, some of them conflicting. A recent court decision revived a century-old abortion ban, and on Thursday a new law kicks in that makes performing the procedure a felony punishable by lengthy prison time and six-figure fines.
The lawsuit says Texas legislators have threatened that abortion funds and their donors will be prosecuted for murder, and asserted that pre-Roe laws can be applied retroactively to work the funds have already done. “They cannot safely resume the exercise of their own constitutional rights until the threat of criminal prosecution for doing so is eliminated,” the suit said.
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