Regarding those lawsuits against the abortion provider here in Texas:

Men in Arkansas and Illinois quickly filed lawsuits against Braid under the new Texas law, which allows anyone, anywhere, to go after anyone who “aids or abets” a woman getting an abortion. Felipe Gomez of Illinois filed his suit as a “Pro-Choice plaintiff” seeking to get the law declared unconstitutional. Oscar Stilley, who describes himself in his complaint as a “disbarred and disgraced former Arkansas lawyer” on home confinement for “utterly fraudulent federal charges,” wants that $10,000.
“If this is a free-for-all, and it’s $10,000, I want my $10,000,” he told The New York Times. “And yes, I do aim to collect.”

This is just a tiny fraction of the circus Texas Republicans invited with this law, but they’re somehow surprised and unhappy about it.

According to the legislative director of Texas Right to Life, which lobbied for the bounty hunter law, “Neither of these lawsuits are valid attempts to save innocent human lives.” You don’t say! Instead, he continued, “Both cases are self-serving legal stunts, abusing the cause of action created in the Texas Heartbeat Act for their own purposes.”

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The geniuses over at Texas Right to Life also “believe Braid published his Op-Ed intending to attract imprudent lawsuits.” Again: You don’t say! What tipped them off? Was it the part where he said in a major newspaper that he had broken a law that requires someone harmed by it to challenge its constitutionality in court? In the same op-ed, he wrote, “I understand that by providing an abortion beyond the new legal limit, I am taking a personal risk, but it’s something I believe in strongly. Represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, my clinics are among the plaintiffs in an ongoing federal lawsuit to stop S.B. 8.”

Duh. Who would have guessed, other than those who understand humans, what was going to happen?

dailykos.com

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