Two Texas jurisdictions will consider measures this week to outlaw the act of transporting another person along their roads for an abortion, part of a strategy by conservative activists to further restrict abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Commissioners in Lubbock County are slated to vote on the proposal on Monday. A few hours north, the Amarillo City Council on Tuesday will weigh its own such law, which could lead to a future council or city-wide vote.

Lubbock and Amarillo are the biggest jurisdictions of the 10 places in Texas that have considered restrictions on abortion-related transportation since the June 2022 end of Roe, which had granted a nationwide right to abortion. Five cities and counties in the state have passed bans.

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    1 year ago

    Conservatives are super afraid of the Government intruding on people’s lives but have no problem at all empowering nosy neighbors to do it.

    More specifically, they have no problem with the government empowering itself to act on behalf of a specific faction of nosy neighbors by rendering judgments and using the power of the state to enforce them in a way that’s functionally equivalent to treating those neighbors as witnesses to a crime.

    If the Supreme Court was a judicial body and not an instrument of the Republican party, they would have stuck down the Texas law as an obvious “fuck you” to judicial authority based entirely on playing dumb about what RvW allows. But it turns out they didn’t care because they were already planning on overturning RvW anyway, along with concepts like standing and precedent.

    God I hate them so much.