Today's NYT Morning Briefing talks about how both D and R lawmakers have been criticizing the shadow docket in recent years as anti-democratic (lack of transparency, few explanations to help lower courts apply consistent decisions, etc.). But, SCOTUS is an equal branch of government, so I'm not sure that a Congressional hearing could actually change anything.
I know PP takes a, “Just ignore the assholes” who protest approach, but we have a few people who come out every now and again on clinic procedure days and bump some fun dance music and block protestors with signs and stuff. I love it when those people are there. Love watching the bead rattlers get big mad.
I escorted at a clinic that had some elderly ladies with decades experience dealing with protestors. They'd carry huge golf umbrellas to visually shield patients. They also were loud as fuck with their lalalalala I know you are but what am I and similar. The purely childhood taunts made a lot of patients (and me) laugh.
Texan here and I live in Austin (you know, where the laws get made). I've been in this fight for more than a decade. I stood with Wendy Davis when she fillibustered. I've been to every fucking march and protest. I've donated and I've made calls to legislators. I never skip an opportunity to vote. I've done ALL THE THINGS THEY TELL YOU TO DO TO MAKE CHANGE!
I am so fucking angry about this that it has only strengthen my resolve to fight harder. I'm now in the stage of life where I am old enough and have enough money to go to jail for my revolutionary actions (and before anyone freaks out, no, I'm not talking about violence. I'm talking about major civil disobedience.)
If the legislators want to prohibit abortions after six weeks gestation, that I will literally blanket the city in pregnancy tests. I will stock up on EC. I will advertise my name and contact info as the Birth Control Lady. I'll risk a $10,000 fine if it means someone can get an abortion. I will drive any adult across state lines to obtain one. Why? Because FUCK YOU, TEXAS and the MEN of this state. FUCK YOU, Greg Abbott and your heartless, cruel hubris. I am fucking done!
Texan here and I live in Austin (you know, where the laws get made). I've been in this fight for more than a decade. I stood with Wendy Davis when she fillibustered. I've been to every fucking march and protest. I've donated and I've made calls to legislators. I never skip an opportunity to vote. I've done ALL THE THINGS THEY TELL YOU TO DO TO MAKE CHANGE!
I am so fucking angry about this that it has only strengthen my resolve to fight harder. I'm now in the stage of life where I am old enough and have enough money to go to jail for my revolutionary actions (and before anyone freaks out, no, I'm not talking about violence. I'm talking about major civil disobedience.)
If the legislators want to prohibit abortions after six weeks gestation, that I will literally blanket the city in pregnancy tests. I will stock up on EC. I will advertise my name and contact info as the Birth Control Lady. I'll risk a $10,000 fine if it means someone can get an abortion. I will drive any adult across state lines to obtain one. Why? Because FUCK YOU, TEXAS and the MEN of this state. FUCK YOU, Greg Abbott and your heartless, cruel hubris. I am fucking done!
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Your Ted Talk made me cry. More people like you, please.
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Texan here and I live in Austin (you know, where the laws get made). I've been in this fight for more than a decade. I stood with Wendy Davis when she fillibustered. I've been to every fucking march and protest. I've donated and I've made calls to legislators. I never skip an opportunity to vote. I've done ALL THE THINGS THEY TELL YOU TO DO TO MAKE CHANGE!
I am so fucking angry about this that it has only strengthen my resolve to fight harder. I'm now in the stage of life where I am old enough and have enough money to go to jail for my revolutionary actions (and before anyone freaks out, no, I'm not talking about violence. I'm talking about major civil disobedience.)
If the legislators want to prohibit abortions after six weeks gestation, that I will literally blanket the city in pregnancy tests. I will stock up on EC. I will advertise my name and contact info as the Birth Control Lady. I'll risk a $10,000 fine if it means someone can get an abortion. I will drive any adult across state lines to obtain one. Why? Because FUCK YOU, TEXAS and the MEN of this state. FUCK YOU, Greg Abbott and your heartless, cruel hubris. I am fucking done!
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
I will make a monthly donation to your blanketing and gas money and fines.
Rachel is insinuating that perhaps even people who donated $ to organizations could theoretically be civilly sued under the TX law.
Yes, the language of the law is something like "anyone who intends to help."
Which is problematic for a whole host of reasons.
And that is what will bring this law down. Someone will/should bring a huge suit, naming hundreds of willing and complicit people "intending to help" a specific individual on a specific occasion - each pitching in something like $5 towards travel, and sue them all for $10000 each. And push that through the courts until the law breaks. The more daughters and wives of Republican legislators the better.
Yes, the language of the law is something like "anyone who intends to help."
Which is problematic for a whole host of reasons.
And that is what will bring this law down. Someone will/should bring a huge suit, naming hundreds of willing and complicit people "intending to help" a specific individual on a specific occasion - each pitching in something like $5 towards travel, and sue them all for $10000 each. And push that through the courts until the law breaks. The more daughters and wives of Republican legislators the better.
I agree. I was having a conversation with a friend yesterday about this exact thing. Grind the courts to an absolute halt.
Texan here and I live in Austin (you know, where the laws get made). I've been in this fight for more than a decade. I stood with Wendy Davis when she fillibustered. I've been to every fucking march and protest. I've donated and I've made calls to legislators. I never skip an opportunity to vote. I've done ALL THE THINGS THEY TELL YOU TO DO TO MAKE CHANGE!
I am so fucking angry about this that it has only strengthen my resolve to fight harder. I'm now in the stage of life where I am old enough and have enough money to go to jail for my revolutionary actions (and before anyone freaks out, no, I'm not talking about violence. I'm talking about major civil disobedience.)
If the legislators want to prohibit abortions after six weeks gestation, that I will literally blanket the city in pregnancy tests. I will stock up on EC. I will advertise my name and contact info as the Birth Control Lady. I'll risk a $10,000 fine if it means someone can get an abortion. I will drive any adult across state lines to obtain one. Why? Because FUCK YOU, TEXAS and the MEN of this state. FUCK YOU, Greg Abbott and your heartless, cruel hubris. I am fucking done!
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
I will make a monthly donation to your blanketing and gas money and fines.
And that is what will bring this law down. Someone will/should bring a huge suit, naming hundreds of willing and complicit people "intending to help" a specific individual on a specific occasion - each pitching in something like $5 towards travel, and sue them all for $10000 each. And push that through the courts until the law breaks. The more daughters and wives of Republican legislators the better.
I agree. I was having a conversation with a friend yesterday about this exact thing. Grind the courts to an absolute halt.
A physician licensed in Texas but who no longer practices there (and never plans to) plus a woman who lives outside the state, travel to Texas specifically so the physician can prescribe the abortion pill. She may not be able to fill the prescription in state (I don't know. if not she hops out to another state where the physician also has prescribing privileges. It sounds complicated but anyone who recently did their residency at Baylor or wherever and doesn't plan to return might qualify if their license hasn't lapsed yet). She takes the pills while within Texas and stays through the completion of the miscarriage. The whole thing is funded by a cavalcade of out of state donors. The lawsuit doesn't name the woman or the physician as defendants.
(The many defendants also claim they are protected because the statute specifically states it does not infringe on free speech - and money is speech.)
I am out of the country right now, but when I get home, I plan to look into whether I can provide a room for someone who comes from out of state for an abortion. I don’t know if that puts me at any legal risk, but I’m ready to help and there’s only so much money I can donate.
I knew we were headed in this direction many years ago, but it’s still shocking that we’re here.
Can we just sue every gas station, bus, uber/lyft/taxi service, and airline in the state of Texas? You can't leave the state to get an abortion if you don't have transportation. Therefore unless they ask every uterus possessing person "will you use this service in order to seek an abortion?" - they are intending to facilitate.
“This is a new reality, and one that opens a way for the prolonged U.S. abortion-rights debate to be resolved. If the Texas Republicans prosper politically, then abortion-rights advocates must accept that the country truly is much more conservative on abortion than they appreciated and adjust their goals accordingly. But if not, and I’m guessing that the answer is not, anti-abortion-rights politicians are about to feel the shock of their political lives. For the first time since the 1970s, they will have to reckon with mobilized opposition that also regards abortion as issue No. 1 in state and local politics.”
Remember: Republicans win because they lie, cheat and steal — not because they represent the will of most Americans.
Texas is on the cusp of being a purple state.
Progress doesn’t happen overnight but it DOES happen. Look at 2018. Look at Georgia in 2020.
There’s every reason for short-term despair — but also long-term optimism. This feels like January 2017 all over again when women around the world took to the streets to make their voices heard. We stand with you, Texas.
I am out of the country right now, but when I get home, I plan to look into whether I can provide a room for someone who comes from out of state for an abortion. I don’t know if that puts me at any legal risk, but I’m ready to help and there’s only so much money I can donate.
I knew we were headed in this direction many years ago, but it’s still shocking that we’re here.
I’m pretty sure someone said they prefer hotels due to safety, but there are orgs that coordinate that as well.
A state judge has shielded, for now, Texas abortion clinics from lawsuits by an anti-abortion group under a new state abortion law in a narrow ruling handed down Friday.
The temporary restraining order Friday by state District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin in response to the Planned Parenthood request does not interfere with the provision. However, it shields clinics from whistleblower lawsuits by the nonprofit group Texas Right to Life, its legislative director and 100 unidentified individuals.
So who is actually going through all these tips that are entered? Is this a tax payer funded job?
it's hosted by a organization called right.to.life. from what I understand the organization takes the tips and then files lawsuits based on that information once they seem it credible I guess. I have seen a few of their board members and lawyers and the people appear as expected.
I mean, anyone can file lawsuits against someone.
Is there an individual or org that’s willing to file multiple lawsuits against Abbott, or any other of these assholes with allegations that they’re contributing…right or wrong?
Can we just sue every gas station, bus, uber/lyft/taxi service, and airline in the state of Texas? You can't leave the state to get an abortion if you don't have transportation. Therefore unless they ask every uterus possessing person "will you use this service in order to seek an abortion?" - they are intending to facilitate.
Uber and Lyft have said they'll cover legal fees for drivers. I'll see if I can dig up the link.
Can we just sue every gas station, bus, uber/lyft/taxi service, and airline in the state of Texas? You can't leave the state to get an abortion if you don't have transportation. Therefore unless they ask every uterus possessing person "will you use this service in order to seek an abortion?" - they are intending to facilitate.
Uber and Lyft have said they'll cover legal fees for drivers. I'll see if I can dig up the link.
it's hosted by a organization called right.to.life. from what I understand the organization takes the tips and then files lawsuits based on that information once they seem it credible I guess. I have seen a few of their board members and lawyers and the people appear as expected.
I mean, anyone can file lawsuits against someone.
Is there an individual or org that’s willing to file multiple lawsuits against Abbott, or any other of these assholes with allegations that they’re contributing…right or wrong?
If so, where can I donate?
Can we claim that Abbot is aided and abetting women who have to do their own abortions? Or his governments lack of appropriate comprehensive sex education or funding or birth control is causing women to get abortions?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott weighed in on a burning question related to the state’s recently passed bill banning abortions after six weeks: what about victims of rape?
During a Tuesday press conference, Abbott said the law gives rape victims up to six weeks to get abortion and thus “does not do that [force victims to have their assaulter’s child].”
“Let’s be clear: rape is a crime,” Abbott said. “And Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott weighed in on a burning question related to the state’s recently passed bill banning abortions after six weeks: what about victims of rape?
During a Tuesday press conference, Abbott said the law gives rape victims up to six weeks to get abortion and thus “does not do that [force victims to have their assaulter’s child].”
“Let’s be clear: rape is a crime,” Abbott said. “And Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.”
The law doesn’t give anyone 6 weeks to do anything! I know that you know this, but at best, people have two weeks to discover they are pregnant and schedule an abortion. So many are picturing people being able to mull over the decision for over a month and it’s just not true. Add in a horrific trauma such as rape…Gawd, fuck Abbott.