The State Senate of Texas approved a bill, so that people could be allowed to sue people who make or distribute abortion drugs inside and out of the state, and the laws are now the head of the Gove Greg Abbot (R) desk.
Senators held 17 to 8 votes in favor of House Bill 7, allowing private citizens to get up to $ 100,000 in loss in successful cases against manufacturers and distributors. Abbott is expected to sign the law in the law.
Under the bill, almost any private citizen can file a case against abortion drug manufacturers or distributors, with some exceptions to women from Texas who take abortion drugs to eliminate pregnancy.
A writer of the bill, Bryan Hughes (R), the state’s senator, has argued that it is to protect the helpless and “precious, small unborn babies” and their mothers from “poisonous, illegal drugs”.
“You manufacture and ships poisonous illegal drugs in Texas, and people are hired,” he will be held accountable, “he said,” he said during Wednesday night’s vote. “We do not apologize for this. Texas should protect our citizens, and that’s about the bill.”
The state senator Carol Alvardo (D) was one of the four Democratic MPs who spoke against the bill before the vote. He warned that HB7 also called the Texas Woman and Child Protection Act, changing Texas into a “surveillance situation”, damages women, children and families to encourage neighbors to record cases against each other for cash.
“This bill does not protect women, children or families,” he said. “This punishes them.”
“In the pharmacy, the delivery driver, even of his own family, every word, every prescription, every private conversation can be converted into evidence. It is neither freedom nor security, it is monitoring and separation.”
The bill is the latest step to squash the access of abortion pills in the state by the Texas Republican, and it will potentially face more challenges for abortion to shield laws in democratic-democratic states.
Texas has almost completely banned miscarriage and impose heavy punishment on those who violate their abortion laws. But due to the availability of mail-order miscarriage drug, the state is still undergoing miscarriage, which can reach through the telehealth providers located in the states with abortion shield laws in Texas.
Two high-profile legal testing loans of abortion shield laws have come from Loan Star State.
Texas Attorney General Kane Paxon Sue a new york doctor To send abortion pills to a woman in the state in December, and a Texas man in July A citizen sued Allegedly against a doctor from California to provide her girlfriend, a Texas woman with abortion pills.
In both cases, abortion shield laws enacted in the home state have made challenging to pursue cases.
An emergency chamber nurse, the state senator Molly Cook (D) said the bill “will increase national conflict” by drawing Texas into another legal war with other states with conflicting abortion laws “with conflicting abortion laws.
A revised version of the bill passed the lower chamber of the State Legislature Legislature last week during the second special session of the Abbott.
Anti -abortion groups said that when the revised bill is passed, what they argue, now protect women’s privacy and curb financial incentives.
“This is already illegal for traffic abortion drugs in Texas under the Protection of Human Life Life Act for Texas Alliance for Life, Amy O’Donnell, and our priority remains an enforcement of that and other laws.” “The amended version of HB7 provides another tool against illegal abortion-mails including significant protection for women.”
