Texas to enable people to prosecute abortion pills: What do you know
The governor of Texas, the governor of Texas Greg Abbott, is expected to sign close legislation that allows ordinary citizens to prosecute anyone who prescribes, distributes or provides abortion medications from or from Texas.
Supporters and opponents of the draft law believe that it will serve as a template for other countries that wish to restrict abortion drugs and lead to new legal battles between the red countries where grains and blue states are banned where they are protected.
They also believe that the draft law can limit the availability of miscarriages even in the states where it is legal, if distributors and manufacturers stop sending medicines to the state to avoid legal repercussions.
Senate members approved the Parliament’s Bill 7 in a vote 17-8 late on Wednesday. Before voting, the sponsor of the bill, Senator Brian Hughes (PBUH), said that the legislation will help protect women who have not yet been born and pregnant women from “illegal toxic drugs.”
In similar statements on Tuesday, he also said that the bill would carry Big Pharma.
He said: “You manufacture and ship illegal drugs in Texas, harm people, and they will be responsible.” “We do not apologize for that. Texas must defend our citizens, and this is what this law is about.”
It is not clear when the Abbott will sign the bill. His office did not answer a question about his timing.
Here is what to know about the bill.
Texans can prosecute up to $ 100,000 as compensation
Under the draft law, almost any person in Texas can prosecute the connection, distributor, or manufacturer of abortion drugs. Persons can in a successful lawsuit to obtain up to $ 100,000 as compensation, according to the draft law.
The prosecution of women who take medications to abort to end the pregnancy, according to a revised version of the bill that was approved at the state’s home last week.
The revised version of the bill approved by the house includes some protection for distributors and drug providers.
Hospitals and doctors in Texas who live and practice exclusively in the state cannot be prosecuted. Also, manufacturers and distributors of abortion medications to treat medical emergencies, ectopic pregnancy, abortion or release cases that are still protected from lawsuits under the revised draft law.
Some aggressors, such as persons accused of domestic violence, are prevented from prosecuting pill sects and manufacturers under the draft law as well.
The latest campaign of Texas on abortion pills
Texas has almost banned abortion and imposes mysterious penalties on people who violate the laws of miscarriage.
But abortion operations are still taking place in the country due to the availability of abortion drugs from the mail request that Texas can reach through health care providers from the distance of the states with the laws of the applicable abortion shield.
HB 7 is the most recent attempt by Republicans in Texas to reach the state’s birth control pills in the state after lawsuits against abortion providers in California and New York yet, the flow of drugs to Texas has not intensified by bypassing the laws of the abortion shield that was enacted in both states.
“They are deliberately following this, and this is part of a greater campaign,” said Jessica Waters, a higher researcher at the American University, who has experience in the reproductive rights law.
In December, the Texas Prosecutor Kane Buckston filed a lawsuit against Doctor Margaret Margaret Carpenter, claiming to send abortion medications to a woman in Texas. The state judge ordered her to stop providing miscarriages for Texas women and a fine of $ 100,000.
Najjar nor her lawyer responded to the case or attended a hearing of the court in Texas.
Then the Buckston office tried to force the writer of the New York County to implement a virtual ruling and delegate the collection of sanctions. The employee refused and told Texas officials that the New York Mid Drink Law protects a carpenter from any of the work.
Texas filed a civilian lawsuit against the California doctor for allegedly providing his girlfriend with abortion medications. Jonathan Mitchell, a lawyer who helped design many miscarriages in Longar, submitted the lawsuit on behalf of his client Jerry Rodriguez.
Backston and 14 other Republican lawyers have taken the fight against the laws of abortion, a step forward by calling the Congress to interfere in the battles between the states on the laws of abortion.
“A plan for the rest of the country”
Texas and Florida also requested a federal judge in late August to allow them to join a lawsuit seeking to restrict access to the Mivipriston at the national level, which is a drug usually needed to abort the drug.
The lawsuit – led by Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho – addresses the approval of the Food and Drug Administration on Mivipriston and claims that it was incorrectly acted when they are easy restrictions on the drug, including making it available via mail.
Legal experts told The Hill that the goal of multiple Texas claims is to eventually put the Supreme Court in the laws of abortion and how they affect the laws of abortion in conflicting states.
“These are all parallel efforts, and I think the theory is that one of them will stick,” said Waters.
Supporters and critics in the draft law agree that legislation will probably work as a model for other legislators, which may lead to a wave of bills in imitation laws and future lawsuits against service providers and manufacturers.
After the draft law was passed, the Texas President John Sugo described the legislation as “a plan for the rest of the country.”
“Texas has done the right to life with legislators since November to create the most effective defense of life against companies and activists outside the country that sends abortion pills to Texas,” he said in a statement. “This trend kills tens of thousands of children per year and harms their mothers, but today, our law has become planned for the rest of the country.”
