Texas has given radical fringe groups a powerful legal weapon with which they can harass providers — using the same aggressive and intimidating tactics they’ve always employed, but to a new, more threatening end. cal_beu writes
Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court on March 2, 2016, as justices heard oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Texas’s new abortion ban — which the Supreme Court quietly refused to block last week, in the dead of night — is sadistic and convoluted, even by your typical abortion-ban standards.
“For the people who have been following and surveilling abortion providers already, this law basically says to them, ‘What you’ve been doing is a social good. Now use it to harm abortion providers even more,’” says David Cohen, a professor at Drexel University who specializes in anti-abortion extremism. For years, zealots have harassed patients outside of clinics, written down their license plate numbers, videotaped people entering and exiting the facilities.
“We were under surveillance,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, the CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, in a phone interview. “The protesters were there the whole time, and stayed all the way until midnight … just to be sure the staff and doctors knew they were there, watching.”
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