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Sogo

(5,840 posts)
2. The context is life or death....
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:21 PM
Dec 13
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/13/texas-paxton-abortion-pill-mail-lawsuit/

Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to Texas woman

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law.

This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.

Texas has vowed to pursue these cases regardless of those laws, and legal experts are divided on where the courts may land on this issue, which involves extraterritoriality, interstate commerce and other thorny legal questions last meaningfully addressed before the Civil War.

“Regardless of what the courts in Texas do, the real question is whether the courts in New York recognize it," said Greer Donley, University of Pittsburgh professor who studies these kinds of laws.

Skittles

(160,292 posts)
3. Paxton is a real piece of shit
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:33 PM
Dec 13

he doesn't give a DAMN about the issue, he just likes exerting his fascist powers

Hekate

(95,281 posts)
4. There are, as I am sure you know full well, matters of employment, savings, kids in school...
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:38 PM
Dec 13

… reliable transportation, and spouses or partners who may have their own opinions on the matter.

There’s an enormous swathe of women who simply don’t have the means to up and leave on their own, for any reason.

Also as soon as Dobbs was passed, Texas began imposing legal measures to keep any woman or girl suspected of pregnancy right where they were in Texas. How would you like to collect a $10,000 bounty? Just be a snitch.

Here’s a cartoon from 2022 that says it all:



Response to Hekate (Reply #4)

zorbasd

(260 posts)
8. Didn't you notice,
Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:51 PM
Dec 13

the fascist state of Texas wants to impose their fascistic ways on other states, as if they have superior federal powers over other states. F#ck Texas!!

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