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The Texas legislature took the extraordinary step of enlisting private citizens to do what the state could not. The act authorizes any private citizen to file a lawsuit against any person who provides an abortion in violation of the act, “aids or abets” such an abortion (including by paying for it) regardless of whether they know the abortion is prohibited under the act, or even intends to engage in such conduct. Courts are required to enjoin the defendant from engaging in these actions in the future and to award the private-citizen plaintiff at least $10,000 in “statutory damages” for each forbidden abortion performed or aided by the defendant. In effect, the Texas legislature has deputized the state’s citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors’ medical procedure.

What Twilight Zone are we living in? Christian Zionists all including SCOTUS, more residual BS from Trump appointees. In other words, christian cretins.

Healthydoc70 7 Sep 3
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They don't have to be state citizens or even citizens of the United States. Anybody can be a vigilante and collect a bounty. The $10K incentivizes people to falsely target pregnant women who may or may not be selling to terminate. Reminds me of Nazi Germany turning in Jews to the SS.

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