Rachel Maddow explains the bizarre rules of the new Texas anti-abortion law that, with the blessing of the Supreme Court, will become the new template for Republican legislatures to effectively ban abortion in the United States by delegating vigilantes to hunt down women to target with lawsuits.
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Can I sue every gas station owner in Texas for not asking everyone who buys gas if they’re driving to a clinic to get an abortion? Every phone company that provides the phone number of a clinic is fair game, right? And every guy who accidentally gets someone pregnant is facilitating an abortion. The courts in Texas deserve to drown in a backlog of cases for letting a bill this open ended pass into law.
Don’t forget to sue Google for providing you with the information of the clinic. And if you drive your own car might as well sue the car manufacturer as well. And if u gotta use GPS sue them too because they gave u the directions. Oh don’t forget the engineers who built the highways that allowed you drive to the clinic. Lol.
@john Sprague Nobody gets “late term” abortions, a term dreamed up by misogynistic a-holes, unless the fetus is a monster and the mother’s life is at risk. No woman waits until her third trimester to get an abortion. Those cases are all because, if the pregnancy were to continue, the woman would die. Her life is the paramount concern.
@Courtney June and if they pay for parking is the parking lot liable for allowing the person to park to go to the clinic.
john Sprague
At the 24th week the fetus has a 50 % chance of survival outside the womb. Only around that time the air sacs are developed. Before that the fetus at 23 weeks of gestation can maybe survive if it weighs 1.1 pounds (0.50 kg). And that only with intensive neonatal care.
@Jovon R. well duh of course.
Mmm..Ahhh The best part of waking up, is bat ☕ soup in your cup
Bat coffee soup in your cup???
So shocking. Why would anyone want to live in Texas? With no voting rights and now this maybe people should leave Texas on droves.
Ask your fellow californians that are comming to texas in droves why would anyone want to be here.
No income tax. That’s why friends moved to Texas and Florida
maybe only the bat-sht crazy liberal left should leave leave Texas. Everyone else seems to love it.
@k maher don’t have to work hard just vote
I watch house flips and how they fix it! I wouldn’t buy a house there! Give me a double brick house with strong Foundation and I am amazed how they still have log cabins and barn-wood ! Texas is prehistoric in my opinion ! 😂😂
If they can make it to the state line, then we help drive them the rest of the way.
@James Faulkner II okay, killer! Is that better?
It’s like the hospital ships that used to visit Ireland before that Catholic nation just made abortion LEGAL again. The American Taliban continue to turn America backward even after their Supreme Leader was deposed.
@D.A. Oh Weren’t they flying Plan B in on quadcopters as well a few years ago? I heard several years ago they let a woman die because they would not remove the fetus until it died but it ended up killing the host, as parasites will do sometimes.
Exactly, we will serve them in another state.
@James Faulkner II Exactly. These new laws here are religious laws and based on emotion. It is very disconcerting, and it is largely the result of Mitch McConnell setting up Trump and allowing him to “pack the courts” with anti-first-amendment judges.
Please VOTE in every election, everybody.
Texas Karen’s were bad enough before, now we have Super Texas Karen!
Can you leave the misogyny out of an issue that abuses women? Jeebus.
@Shine the Light thanks for the misogyny
@fide laetantem alleluia no, just the women – but they don’t count
@fide laetantem alleluiaYOU WILL NEVER STOP ABORTIONS!! Only make them safer. But you don’t çare about actual living, breathing babies, on oxygen because antimaskers & Antivaxxers infected them!!
@fide laetantem alleluia Clumps of cells.
So gun shops??? Say if Massachusetts passed a law saying If you live in Massachusetts you can civilly sue any gun shop owner who has sold a gun that was used in a crime? This is not going to be good.
There’s a difference. One is a tool, the other ones about killing babies
@pex320 Sandyhook
so can we sue Biden admin. when the taliban start killing Americans? Will the Biden admin. take our AR15’s and give them to taliban?
@B B still blaming Trump for everything? Laws to protect the child have been in place for literally thousands of years right around the world and remain in hundreds of countries. Anti-abortion laws were only repealed in the US in the 70s
@B Conscious LOL “thousands of years” 🤣 I suppose you mean to say the laws that allowed children to work in coal mines and marry adults?? Or we could go back into ancient Greece when the parents and the state could select which child they could keep and which one to abandon, usually leading to the murder of girls because boys were considered more useful, better “helpers” (slaves)…🙈I could go on, but you get the point by now, yes? Oh and isn’t it funny how the people that are anti abortion are usually silent about the 46 states where child marriage is still legal… makes you think why they want all those babies. 🤔
The GOP got only one mission in mind, and that is anti-abortion.
Instead of trying to control the female body they should control their own and keep it in their pants, legislate that.
Actually at this time they are anti EVERYTHING 🤔🤪🤥😠🤨😳
no their mission is to destroy democracy. Anti-abortion is only to please the extreme right wing nutters. Time to act because we are losing and fast.
The GOP’s true goal actually is to make everyone’s life miserable. Especially if you’re a woman, non-white, LGBTQ, or not a Christian.
We should apologize to Mexico for taking Texas and give it back to them.
@ChrisJ Free country, for now, so you can believe what you like. I live here, and I’m telling you as a TRUE Texan, you are dead wrong!
You should check out Texit.
@Joey Tomko Well I live here too and as a TRUE Texan I can tell you nobody I know wants to leave the US.
@ChrisJGoogle Texit.
From a New Mexican: We’ve tried. Mexico refused.
@Chonq Monk 😲MG! Texas Taliban! THAT’S 😂❗✌
Easy to cross to another state.Also vote out republicans
Not for the underprivileged
No,your wrong. Move out of Texas instead, take your sick ideas with you!
Not that easy. Not only do people have jobs and families to take care of, but anyone who helps a pregnant woman cross the state line could be arrested, be forced to pay the lawyer fees of the bounty hunter who turned her in, and also pay the bounty hunter a $10,000 bonus.
now that IS a witch hunt
Might ought to buy some shares in whatever company it is that makes the “morning after” pill.
@topgrain there’s a ton like that. The Catholic Church is anti birth control.
I figure it all stems from the bible being written in a time where a bigger population was necessary.
I have no doubt God has pulled me out of some things. Organized religion is a different story.
As for the bible, written by Jewish people,who just happen to be the ones called God’s chosen one’s , that’s a bit hard to swallow.
I don’t see God saying it’s ok to steal homes and land from Palestinians like happens in Israel now.
There’s very little difference between radical islamic terrorist and right-wing talibangelical terrorists.
how about a taxi service to get them to a doctor?
@Lillian Matthews lots of white christian mothers used them
You’d be better off investing in rubber tree plantations.
@topgrain…which apparently leaves very little room to fit anything else.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Invest in “Planned Parent. Legalized murder brings serious coin!
@Canillo Canillo Trump is relevant because he used to tweet mean & hurtful things that left so many of his innocent victims with permanent emotional scars.
@Canillo Canillo This is the obsessed TRUMP CULT!!
I don’t know the particulars of the law, but regardless I support this law purely out of spite. Anything that upsets the left is ok in my book. They want to mandate vaccines then they deserve this law
@Rita Fergusen Ummm, lemme guess…you devoutly worship at Church of The Crimson Fetus and pride yourself on being an unquestioningly obedient member in The Cult of The Perpetually Masked?
Does that mean they’re going to force the men to marry the women? I mean, fairs fair.
No but they should force them to father that child or go to jail!
Can we abort our wives after 6 weeks of marriage? DEAL!
DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A POOR WOMAN AND A RICH WOMAN TERMINATING A PREGNACY…ONES CALLED AN ABORTION THE OTHER A MEDICAL PROCEDURE. AND NOW NOBODY IN TEXAS IS REQUIRED TO HAVE A LICENSE OR PERMIT TO CARRY A GUN…SO, KAREN AND KEVIN BUSIBODY CAN ASSAULT ANYONE THEY THINK MIGHT BE OR MAYBE OR EVEN LOOK LIKE THEY WOULD…THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL…
…and vigilante law is ok by the Supreme Court?
How long is it going to take for mob law to be OK on as wide a swath as creative lynch mobs can figure?
Mob rule was made ok in 2020 when the leftist democrats allowed CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle. Allowed it, facilitated it, promoted it and withdrew police from it and never prosecuted it. Turned out well didn’t it?
The Taliban: “THEY STOLE OUR WHOLE FLOW!!!!”
😂😂😂
Yes and 85 billion dollars worth of modern weapons. Soon to be returned to the streets of America. At least I hope not .
The Taliban kills kids. Texas saves them. Ask Joe. They his daddy now.
The Taliban: Jump!
Joe Biden: How high?
The Taliban: High jump!
Joe Biden: C’mon umm I mean ok. . .
It’s just like the Taliban. Just switch out the country and the religion.
Republicans say “it’s my body my choice” when having to do with putting on a mask and getting vaccinated. You can’t pick and choose. It’s my body my choice !
@CampfireAddict Speak for yourself, Jethro.
Are you against vaccine and mask mandates?
It is your body and your choice. But at 6 weeks this is now About the child’s body and protecting the child’s choice. The mother is not more important than the child.
@B Consciousno a child doesn’t have a choice until its a 18 yr of age
@lol actually it does it’s called Child protection law ? Ever heard of it .
Since vasectomy can be reversed, males should have to have one!
Yeah Texas! Take that!
The evilness just keeps getting more evil.
Are you intimating that protecting life is evil or that making women accountable for decisions is evil? This is certainly moral dilemma but I wouldn’t attribute it to evil. In any case, generally, our society considers the taking of a life the pinnacle of evil
Which is worse: Florida, Mississippi, or Texas? Give details please.