“A flagrantly unconstitutional law … I dissent.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteed American women the right to choose whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. For more than two generations, the pro-choice side supporting a woman’s right to authority over her own body and her own medical care has seen this as their right. For the same amount of time, the pro-life side has seen it as their right to tell others what to do with their own bodies.
Roe v. Wade has been settled law for nearly 50 years. But dual shockwaves that crossed the U.S. on Tuesday have cast a pale on a right that most women had come to take for granted and the implications are rolling far beyond the women of child-bearing age of Texas.
The bill
On Tuesday the Texas state legislature passed the most restrictive abortion bill in the country, denying abortions to Texas women (at roughly six weeks when a heartbeat can be detected). In a stunning invasion of a woman’s right to her own body, the legislature turned Texas residents into vigilante bounty hunters, charging them with reporting on anyone they suspect of helping a woman get an abortion (even for pregnancies due to incest or rape) and allowing them to sue that person for a minimum of $10,000 for up to four years after the alleged abortion.
While abortion is still legal in this country, in Texas the situation harkens back to Stalinist Soviet Union or Hitler’s Fascist Germany, places where in the past...
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