Posted on 06/24/2022 3:11:29 PM PDT by Morgana
Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade will make abortions illegal in Texas in 30 days. The Texas Legislature passed a “trigger law” in 2021 that makes performing abortions in Texas a felony 30 days after the Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade.
“The U.S. Supreme Court correctly overturned Roe v. Wade and reinstated the right of states to protect innocent, unborn children,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a written statement following the SCOTUS decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. “Texas is a pro-life state, and we have taken significant action to protect the sanctity of life.”
One of those steps was the creation of a “trigger law,” House Bill 1280, that makes performing an abortion a felony beginning 30 days after the court’s decision. State Representative Giovanni Capriglione authored the bill and Governor Abbott signed it into law in June 2021.
The bill makes it a crime to perform, induce, or attempt abortion. The law provides exceptions for a life-threatening condition of the mother that could lead to her death or serious bodily injury. A violation of the law is a felony of the second degree. The death of the unborn during the abortion would increase the offense to a felony of the first degree. The person performing the abortion could also be subject to a civil penalty of up to $100,000 for each violation.
The law does not impose any penalty or fine on the pregnant female, the law states. Rep. Capriglione told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the penalties also do not apply to a pregnant female who performs a self-induced abortion.
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Maybe that’ll send some of those Californians packing.
Please.
Don’t you have to count backwards 9 months to ascertain “moment of conception”? To solve this problem, scientists are developing a nano-transmitter which automatically attaches itself to an egg before fertilization. Upon detection the transmitter will immediately transmit the coded message to the scientists via the cloud and also to the woman’s iphone. The coded message would read, upon decoding, “Yo Mama!”
Has anyone seen a discussion on whether a person or entity that funds travel/costs for a woman to get an abortion where it is legal, would/could be prosecuted??
I think. It would be very good for this country to concentrate leftists in some states and conservatives in others. We would all be much better off.
Good news!
Ditto.
In Roe v. Wade the US Supreme Court declared that the Texas abortion law in effect at the time violated the US Constitution. Such a ruling does by the US Supreme Court does not repeal the law in question -- only the legislature may do that. So the old law remains in place, but it may not be enforced because it has been declared to violate the Constitution.
Now the US Supreme Court has ruled that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided, and there is no longer any bar to enforcing it. The Texas Legislature in the intervening decades never repealed the law declared unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade, it merely amended the state's abortion law, effective 30 days after Roe v. Wade was reversed by the US Supreme Court. So the old, pre-Roe law is the law in Texas, for the next 30 days.
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Yes maybe liberals will flee and go back home where they came from!!!
Yup, makes sense.
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