Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 21: Lone Star Review
Up To Date With Ethan Callender Entry 21: Lone Star Review As of September 1st, an insidious new law has taken effect in Texas. This law effectively bans abortion in the state only six weeks into pregnancy, with no exceptions. Normally, statutes like that would get blocked by the courts, but Texas and its governor, Greg Abbott, did things differently. Rather than make it a criminal ban, which would inevitably be struck down as unconstitutional, they made illegal abortions a civil violation . This means that abortion providers and anyone else who ‘aids and abets’ the procedure could be sued for upwards of $10,000. This was possibly done to make the law harder for the courts to throw out, and so far, it has succeeded in staying on the books. However, I am going to try and explain why this law is completely abhorrent morally, as well as dubious legally. For one thing, any abortion law with a ban at six weeks of pregnancy is going to be nearly total in practice. This is because ...