Abortion Providers in Texas Fear for Their Future, Even If That Terrible Law Is Struck Down
barring any decisive action from the Supreme Court. Abortion providers did ask, NPR notes,“The Supreme Court needs to step in and stop this madness,” Nancy Northup, president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement to the“It’s unconscionable that the Fifth Circuit stayed such a well-reasoned decision that allowed constitutionally protected services to return in Texas.
Given the unique nature of the law—which relies on ordinary citizens to enforce it rather than state authorities, encouraging them to sue people suspected of having “aided or abetted” an abortion with rewards of at least $10,000—providers in the state are extremely wary of violating it.
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