Wtf is up with Texas?

[bgmnts]

Seriously, good god.


www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58426145

The state law outsources enforcement of the abortion ban to private citizens, who can file lawsuits against abortion providers and individuals who "aid and abet" the procedure - collecting $10,000 (£7,230) in damages for each case they win. With no government official or entity enforcing the ban, the Supreme Court majority held, there's no one for opponents of the law to sue until those private cases start showing up in court

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The three people who saw The Handmaid's Tale and said yeah that looks awesome just happen to run things.

[touchingcloth]

Je suis Ofbarry.

[Buelligan]

Maybe all the sane women will just up and leave.  Have they thought of that at all?

[C_Larence]

Maybe all the sane women will just up and leave.  Have they thought of that at all?

The people who will be disproportionately affected by this are least likely to be able to do that.

[Pranet]

It is terrifying and isn't going to stop at Texas. Remembering all the twats saying that Trump wasn't that bad actually now. This was the point of Trump to a lot of people who voted for him.

[Mister Six]

The website is here: Prolifewhistleblower.com

They've blocked access from the UK, but someone with a VPN might be able to fuck around with them from "within the US".

Just a thought.

[Dex Sawash]

The website is here: Prolifewhistleblower.com

They've blocked access from the UK, but someone with a VPN might be able to fuck around with them from "within the US".

Just a thought.

"Site on lockdown"

[JamesTC]

You wait until they are born before you kill them. Preferably with guns in some sort of mass shooting. No fun otherwise.

Just the five dead in mass shootings last month in Texas (July was a bumper month with 15). With no abortions to prune the population, who knows how high that can rise! Exciting times we live in.

[Mr Farenheit]

The website is here: Prolifewhistleblower.com

They've blocked access from the UK, but someone with a VPN might be able to fuck around with them from "within the US".

Just a thought.

Tried with a VPN, seems overloaded: "Block Reason:   Exceeded the maximum global requests per minute for crawlers or humans."

[earl_sleek]

I'm seeing on that apparently GoDaddy have suspended hosting the site & given them 24 hours to find another host.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Seal off the area.

If women decided to retaliate by having procedures to become infertile Texas would probably retaliate by making rape legal.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Can women get an abortion in another state (where abortion is presumably legal?), or would they still be classed as having broken the law as soon an they cross the state line back into Texas?

[All Surrogate]

As I read it, that wouldn't be illegal, as the illegality is in the provision of the abortion, rather than undergoing it.

I've no legal training though, so take that with a pinch of salt.

[touchingcloth]

Absolutely mad that things like abortion laws are devolved to the individual states. Wouldn't catch us doing that sort of thing.

[Key]

So if a fetus is legally considered a human life at 6 weeks in Texas, could this potentially open a can of worms? Insurance firms having to pay out on fetuses?
U.S. citizenship for embryos?

[chveik]

personally i think you should be allowed a time limit of two years to get an abortion

[Alberon]

Christian Middle-East. Mad bunch of absolute fucks.

[Buelligan]

personally i think you should be allowed a time limit of two years to get an abortion

We could make exceptions in certain cases, this is a democracy.


_{Deserves the same rights as a foetus}

You need to understand that there's a lot of businesses and a lot of Americans who like the social positions that the state of Texas is taking.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/greg-abbott-abortion-ban-business/

[Kankurette]

Fundies, basically.

[Glebe]

[bgmnts]

'You need to understand there are a lot of hypocritical religious nutcase fucks out there like me' is basically what he should say. We're in mask off territory at this point why put such a polite front on it?

[Dex Sawash]

Papa John's and My Pillow are probably already in Texas

[Buelligan]

'You need to understand there are a lot of hypocritical religious nutcase fucks out there like me' is basically what he should say. We're in mask off territory at this point why put such a polite front on it?

I honestly wonder if they're[nb]Most politicians and businesspeople.[/nb] like behavioural science experiment rats.  They've learnt that if you press certain buttons, you get money, sex and power, they don't care or think about what happens other than that.  What happens other than that is God's will.

[Dex Sawash]

[Video Game Fan 2000]

All this "Texan Taliban" shit is pissing me off, wouldn't be surprised if a significant chunk of it was centrist astroturf.

Nevermind the actual harm done by this specific ruling, let's just whip out the same strained racist analogy we've been failing to get going since Jan 6. 

Liberal flowchart: Can We Compare This Human Rights Abuse To Some YA Lit? -> if no -> Racism

[Dr Rock]

In an interview, Greaves describes how the idea for The Satanic Temple was conceived. Greaves and his colleagues envisioned The Satanic Temple as a "poison pill" in the Church/State debate. Their idea was that Satanists, asserting their rights and privileges where religious agendas have been successful in imposing themselves upon public affairs, could serve as a reminder that such privileges are for everybody, and can be used to serve an agenda beyond the current narrow understanding of what the religious agenda is

I watch a lot of stuff about american religious nut-jobs. I'm so glad I don't live there. Also they stole the country off the indigenous people and should give it back.

[Dr Rock]

The Dusty Smith podcast features a lot of sick cunt mad bastard christaian fucks/


This particular development is beyond horrific.

[Buelligan]

All power to them.  I wonder if they do t shirts, I'm not pregnant but if I were, a TST maternity top to cover the bump would be an absolute godsend.

[bgmnts]

Unsure if associating abortion with Satanism in a Christian fundamentalist state is a good idea but sadly that's how desperate it all is.

Hope they turn their stupid religious laws against them.

[Buelligan]

Don't fret bgmnts, I'm guessing it's something on these lines - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster