Here’s your daily states trying to ban abortion through legislation story
Rep. George Lavender, R-Texarkana, has jumped well past the debate on the mandatory sonograms and filed a bill on Wednesday that would prevent any abortion except in cases of rape, incest or the life of the mother.
The bill would be a direct affront to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision and certainly, if passed, be detoured through a lengthy and predicatable court challenge. At least the ACLU promises that it will.
The civil rights’ group called the bill, “a draconian attempt to roll back nearly 40 years of history by eliminating women’s right to make decisions regarding their own bodies,” said ACLU of Texas legal director Lisa Graybill.
The ACLU said that if this bill should pass, along with a package of bills aimed at illegal immigrants, that Texas — now in the throes of cutting teachers, nursing homes and health programs — will end up expending large amounts of taxpayer money to defend lawsuits that have little chance of success.
“The state of Texas is attempting to trump federal law,” said ACLU executive director Terri Burke. “This is a serious overreach.”
Texas currently has law that would immediately outlaw abortions if the Supreme Court overturns its decision and leaves the legality of abortions up to individual states.