Advocates and providers worry if S.B. 8 becomes law on Sept. 1, it will become a blueprint for other red states looking to end legal abortion.
filed by a coalition of abortion advocates and providers could prevent the extreme legislation from being enacted.
The bill is multifaceted and rife with barriers for Texans seeking abortions and those who work as abortion providers. Beyond deputizing private citizens, the statute’s main goal is to saddle clinics with lawsuits and legal fees. Additionally, if a private citizen successfully sues a clinic, that provider is responsible for paying for the winner’s legal fees. It’s simply “a back door way to shut down clinics,” Ford said.
One major concern for abortion advocates is how S.B. 8 will serve to further fan the flames of anti-abortion harassment. Some anti-choice groups have already recruited volunteers to inundate abortion clinics and other pro-choice groups with lawsuits, while others like Texas Right To Life recently launched a website that asks ”“They are certainly trying to gin up interest in a way that is helpful to them, financially and otherwise.
“In this statute, the enforcement is left to anyone in the country but, specifically, excludes the state from enforcing the six-week ban,” Nash explained. “When the state is the enforcement mechanism, you can sue the state and say the law is unconstitutional. When the enforcement mechanism is anyone in the country — how do you build the court case to sue? Who do you sue?”
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