Texas law barring most abortions has origins in tiny Waskom

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Texas' abortion law follows a model first used in Waskom, a town of about 1,600 on the state's border with Louisiana. The novel legal approach was envisioned by Jonathan F. Mitchell, a former top lawyer for the state.

The road to a Texas law that bans most abortions in the state, sidestepping for now the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, began in a town called Waskom, population 1,600.provoked outrage from liberals and cheers from many conservatives. President Joe Biden assailed it. But the decision also astonished many that Texas could essentially outmaneuver Supreme Court precedent on women’s constitutional right to abortion.

Nearly three dozen other cities in the state followed Waskom’s lead. Among them is Lubbock, where a Planned Parenthood clinic stopped performing abortions this year as a result. The private right-of-action wrinkle envisioned by Mitchell has so far kept challenges to the law from succeeding. “It is practically impossible to bring a pre-enforcement challenge to statutes that establish private rights of action, because the litigants who will enforce the statute are hard to identify until they actually bring suit,” he wrote in one footnote.Still, even some conservatives have questioned Texas’ approach.

 

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ChristiTheMac How the hell is it allowed to have private citizens who have no involvement in someone else personal life allowed to sue a woman/clinic.

Texas now treating all women as cattle.

Because Waskom Louisiana is a mecca for women’s rights, civil liberty and justice.

Evil, pure evil.

The Texliban governor has managed to establish sharia law in Texas. Women are now second class citizens in Texas. Texliban

Notice no women were involved in the crafting of these violations of human rights.

Not novel as this approach was used in the Soviet Block to make neighbors report each other for bounties who were against communism.

This is Biden’s fault.

So does this mean that a state can legislate private right of action for me to sue anyone for owning a gun? I mean, since we're undermining constitutional rights, and all...

It was envisioned by a man. Shocking.

Doesn't Federal Law take precedence over State law?

Men really sit around and envision how to ruin women's lives and the media calls that a novel legal approach

We should cede Texas back to Mexico

All this boils down to a bunch of men who hate women This isn’t about life, right to life, protecting the unborn, or anything else they claim It’s literally men who hate women and women who hate women

What’s next on this private action enforcement? First anyone associated with an abortion. Next it will be someone’s gender identity, then religion, then political party. This is the beginning of totalitarianism.

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