Red States RUSH To Copy Texas' Vigilante Law

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Idaho Passed Near-Total Ban On Abortion Monday Night Almost Identical To Texas’ Abortion Law That OKs Vigilante Enforcement Of The Ban. Idaho Is The First In A Potential String Of States That May Copy Texas’ Abortion Restrictions—Or Go Even Further—After Courts Refused To Strike The Law Down. Sam Seder and the MR Crew discuss.

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Sam Seder: Texas passed a law that essentially deputized citizens via the courts to sue any person involved in the enabling of someone getting an abortion after 15 weeks in Texas or was it 20?

Emma Vigeland: I think it was 15 and uh or ?

SS: It was 20 I believe and-

EV: 15 is the Mississippi law-

SS: exactly

EV: It's hard to get all of these theocratic laws keep them -

SS: No, I'm sorry excuse me this is six weeks after pregnancy, and right six weeks after pregnancy. You can sue a provider, a taxi cab, a person who enables an abortion in Texas you don't even have to be in Texas to sue you don't have to be a Texas citizen to sue. That allowed to be well-funded money groups to aid in this effort the advocates of abortion rights went to the Supreme Court before it took effect in September, the Supreme Court declined because they said state officials were not responsible for enforcing the law that it could not be challenged in federal court based on the constitutional protections established by Roe. The supreme court however in December said that opponents could of the law could file suit against Texas medical licensing officials who might discipline abortion providers who violate that law. So they sent it down to the fifth circuit, which is in texas that circuit is a pretty conservative one the judges in the fifth circuit said we're going to kick it to the Texas Supreme Court to make this determination...

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