The US is really a shithole country.
You need to define it as a per state one.
And that abortion law is so utterly stupid and at the same time one of the smartest things the republicans have managed to pass in a very long time, but I do think it's going to cause a grass roots backlash as most who are against abortion are against it at later stages, not that early, and in regards to younger generation, <60% of 50 and younger are against abortion even among republican:
www.pewresearch.org
Anyways, why it's even stupider/smarter than you might realize:
Instead of having the government enforce the law, the bill turns the reins over to private citizens — who are newly empowered to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone get an abortion after a fetal "heartbeat" has been detected. The person would not have to be connected to someone who had an abortion or to a provider to sue.
Proponents of the new law hope to get around the legal challenges that have tied up abortion restrictions in the courts.
While abortion providers typically sue the state to stop a restrictive abortion law from taking effect, there’s no state official enforcing Senate Bill 8 — so there’s no one to sue, the bill’s proponents say.
“It’s a very unique law and it’s a very clever law,” said Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston.
“Planned Parenthood can’t go to court and sue Attorney General [Ken] Paxton like they usually would because he has no role in enforcing the statute. They have to basically sit and wait to be sued.”
Legal experts have been
divided on the strategy, and abortion rights advocates have said they plan to fight regardless.
The signing of the bill opens a new frontier in the battle over abortion restrictions as first-of-its-kind legal provisions intended to make the law harder to challenge are poised to be tested in the courts.
www.texastribune.org
Note it used to be 20 weeks, which was ~halfway through second trimester, which is when heart actually can be heard on an ultrasound.
And then opposition wrote a letter,
around 300 on it, so started checking how many are actually certified, 7200 lawyers certified with the board of which:
71 are health (found 4 in the doc, didn't check the rest):
https://lawyers.lawyerlegion.com/texas/tbls-health-law
250 in civil trial:
https://lawyers.lawyerlegion.com/texas/tbls-civil-trial-law
250 in civil appellate law:
https://lawyers.lawyerlegion.com/texas/tbls-civil-appellate-law?page=5
Would guess the 250 is just a cut-off, but still, 300 of max 1k, across those 3 professions, that's a lot for getting involved in a political issue.
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So you report to
https://prolifewhistleblower.com/ , forbidden to access for me by godaddy / pretty much any VPN I use, but some nice redditors have been doing this:
And based on this:
Seems it's been down for 12 days already. Who'd have thought.
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/pfzpkz/_/hbacfqq