Gov. Greg Abbott's crackdown bans abortions after six weeks even in cases of rape, and he refuses to commit to changing the law for assault survivors.
Wallace pointed out on “Fox News Sunday” that there were 15,000 rapes in Texas in 2019, the most recent year for which statistics are available. “Almost everyone says that’s a severe undercount,” he added. “There are a lot more cases that just aren’t reported.”to say to somebody who is the victim of rape, and might not understand that they are pregnant until six weeks, ‘Well, don’t worry about it, because we’re going to eliminate rape as a problem in the state of Texas?’” Wallace asked Abbott.
The Republican governor replied vaguely that sexual assault survivors “deserve support,” and said he was going to create a “sexual assault survivors task force.” But Wallace again noted the high number of rapes that have taken place during Abbott’s time as governor, and asked if he would be open to amending the draconian law.“Including the child of a rape?” Wallace asked.For enforcement, the Texas law relies on a bizarre bounty system for vigilantes, who can
who “aids and abets” an abortion, from a doctor or nurse to a person who drives a rape victim to a clinic.
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