Replies to post #68695 on LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

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That's horrific ..."The prospect of hefty bounties will breed a system of profit-seeking, Soviet-style informing on friends and neighbors. These vigilantes will sue medical distributors of IUDs and morning-after pills, as well as insurance companies. These companies, in turn, will stop offering reproductive healthcare in Texas. As of a minute before midnight on 31 August, clinics in Texas were already turning patients away out of fear. Even if the law is eventually struck down, many will probably close anyway.

Worse still, if women try to escape the state to access abortion services, their families will be on the hook for offering even the smallest aid. If friends or family of a woman hoping to terminate her pregnancy drive her across state lines, or help her organize money for a plane or bus ticket, they could be liable for “aiding and abetting” a now-banned abortion, even if the procedure itself takes place outside Texas.

Adding insult to injury, if a young woman asks for money for a bus ticket, or a ride to the airport, friends and parents fearful of liability might vigorously interrogate her about her intentions. This nightmarish state of affairs burdens yet another fundamental constitutional privilege: the right to interstate travel, recognized by the supreme court in 1999 as a core privilege of federal citizenship. Welcome to Gilead!

Many wealthy women will presumably still find ways to access care. But their poor, disproportionately minority sisters will be stuck, forced to face down the barrel of unimaginably cruel choices. Desperate women will still seek abortions but will be forced to do so on the black market and in back alleys. Fewer Samaritans will risk heavy fines or imprisonment to help them. Some will die trying."

Your - ROE v WADE DIED WITH BARELY A WHIMPER. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL
FINANCIAL REWARDS GIVEN TO THOSE SHREDDING THE US CONSTITUTION? THAT IS THE REALITY OF THE TEXAS LAW ON ABORTION
Laurence H Tribe
Thu 2 Sep 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/02/roe-v-wade-texas-abortion-law-us-constitution

[janice shell]

ROE v WADE DIED WITH BARELY A WHIMPER

Let's not call time of death too soon. I have the sense that many people are really pissed off by this. The people in Texas who did it--and those in other states who're planning something similar for the near future--cooked up the worst, and stupidest, law they could. And I think they'll pay for that.

Their clients--the rabid worse-than-Trump idiots who vote for them--are nasty yobbos. And sooner rather than later, they'll resort to actual violence. That will make things even worse. I think quite a few of them may lose their positions in the legislature in 2022.

For a long time, pro-choice activists have lamented the lack of participation by young women. They say those people thought the talk of Roe v Wade being endangered was an exaggeration. That there wasn't a real threat.

I think this will be a wakeup call for them.

And I think those "conservative" justices on the Supreme Court--at least some of them--will be feeling embarrassed. What will they do now? They stepped in it, failing to realize how pissed off a great many people would be.