Texas abortion law: Here are 4 things to know about how it might affect Illinois

chicagotribune.com ^

[Salman]

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a Texas law that bans most abortions as early as about six weeks, before many women even know they’re pregnant.

The law — considered among the most restrictive in the nation — is unconventional in its approach, because it permits any private citizen to sue abortion providers or anyone aiding women in terminating a pregnancy, including someone who provides women rides to an abortion clinic or helps fund the procedure. The measure prohibits abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

Abortion rights activists fear the case could set precedence and other states might adopt similar laws, particularly some in the Midwest and southern swathes of the nation. Other state laws that have attempted such restrictive gestational limits on the procedure were previously blocked or struck down by the courts, citing Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that established a woman’s right to an abortion.

... Activists from both sides of the abortion debate believe Illinois will see an uptick in travel here for the procedure. ...

[SamuraiScot]

there is nothing stopping the Left from doing the same thing with their ever increasing list of grievances.

They've been doing it for a century. I don't see your point.

[BlackAdderess]

They have been doing it with zealot lawyers willing to tilt at windmills pro bono. The odds are against being able to argue a precedent setting case so the majority of lawyers will spend their time taking cases they can win rather than spending their time arguing cases that are mostly going to fail and cost them money.

This is providing legal code written to the purpose and a profit motive at $10,000 plus legal fees a pop built in for a guaranteed payday, so every ambulance chaser around will have a new income stream. Plus there is the lovely little “see something, say something” anonymous tip line, I mean what are they? The coochie police?! 1984 much?!

[SamuraiScot]

They have been doing it with zealot lawyers willing to tilt at windmills

I guess I still don't see your point. Do you favor making abortion both rare and illegal? If so, what do you suggest? If not, I don't see that you have a dog in this fight.

[BlackAdderess]

Are you KIDDING me?! We all have a dog in the fight regarding the overreach that has just taken place in Texas. They have just codified a new Stasi and have done so in the civil courts (where the accused have few rights including having no right to representation).

[SamuraiScot]

Kidding? Let me think--No. You're free to make those arguments, and it's important to raise them, but let's say there's an element missing from your brief, as far as Christian civilization goes, which is, "What do you suggest as an alternative tack?"

If you have no objection to the imposition of child sacrifice on our country since 1973, alarm about the possibility of frivolous lawsuits--which are indeed undesirable--seems like (please pardon the cliché) rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.