But what actually strikes me most forcefully about the Texas law is the way that it will intersect with and exacerbate the pathologies highlighted by Arendt, Goldberg, and Linker. The new law directs itself at those very same atomized, mistrustful impulses for self-help and seemingly heroic individualist interventions that are the cornerstone of totalitarianism. By design, again, S.B.
And the state could then award those people at least $10,000 per illegal abortion if they are successful at trial. As Tribe and Vladeck put it, the law “effectively enlists the citizenry to act as an anti-abortion Stasi.” There are, to be sure, environmental and whistleblower laws that also encourage citizen enforcement, but in those regimes, the citizens act in tandem with the state, not as a replacement for it. The cash bounty? That’s the cherry on top.
Unconstitutional. They know this will bring more court cases ~
Now that, I believe, would be a HIPPA violation.
Kind of like Mao’s cultural revolution with cash rewards.
10K bounty on WOMEN !!!