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Post by librarylady on Mar 10, 2023 22:36:52 GMT
We all saw this coming after the laws that have been forced upon women in Texas.
ETA: A Texas man is suing three women under the wrongful death statute, alleging that they assisted his ex-wife in terminating her pregnancy, the first such case brought since the state’s near-total ban on abortion last summer.
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Post by birukitty on Mar 10, 2023 22:47:06 GMT
I am in utter shock. I can't believe this is actually happening. This is like a scene from "The Handmaid's Tale" except it's real. My heart goes out to those women.
I pray they get the very best defense lawyers pro bono.
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Post by RosieKat on Mar 10, 2023 23:01:10 GMT
Next we'll be suing dry cleaners for returning laundry on wire hangers.
I have my issues with abortion, but this is just not how to deal with it and it's just sick. I know the article says there is some legal ambiguity given the timing, but if it isn't this one, it'll just be another one. I'm surprised it took this long, frankly. And of course, the legal representatives for the ex-husband are one of the guys who wrote the damn law and another one who sponsored it. Sick selfish pocket liners.
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Post by Lexica on Mar 11, 2023 0:12:05 GMT
Well, it is sure easy to see why this woman wanted to divorce her husband. What a jerk move on his part, suing for a million dollars over this. I want to know how he found out, and who didn’t delete their texts of these conversations.
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Post by Merge on Mar 11, 2023 0:42:19 GMT
This is strange. The law on the books that should most reasonably apply in this case is the $10K "bounty" that any citizen is supposed to be able to collect for turning in someone who provided or helped with an abortion. Why are they going to a wrongful death suit? I'm not a lawyer, so perhaps someone will correct me, but does it seem like they're doing an end-run around the lege in setting a legal precedent for wrongful death and much larger potential payouts/consequences in these cases without actually having to pass a bill?
I mean, the whole thing is strange and wrong. The women of Texas are being held hostage by a small minority of ultra conservatives who pump millions of dollars into the coffers of Republican representatives. But when I opened the link, I expected to read that someone was being sued under the state's abortion bounty law, so this is just odd to me.
God, I hate these people.
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Post by uksue on Mar 11, 2023 1:00:57 GMT
I presume this must have bern a pregnancy early in the fest trimester? Wrongful death? Speechless. I say that as a retired nurse who worked as a midwife for 5 years and chose not to take part in surgical terminations after the first I had to attend as part if my nurse training. My choice not to work there, but it's the woman's right to choose.
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Post by epeanymous on Mar 11, 2023 1:13:56 GMT
Almost as if pro choicers warned abortion rights helped women get out from under abusive men.
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Post by Lexica on Mar 11, 2023 1:19:08 GMT
i want to see the lawsuits suing these zealots for the cost of raising a child to adulthood. Force a woman to give birth? Then pay for that child's expenses.
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Post by epeanymous on Mar 11, 2023 2:10:55 GMT
i want to see the lawsuits suing these zealots for the cost of raising a child to adulthood. Force a woman to give birth? Then pay for that child's expenses. No he wants to force her to give birth so he can spend the next 18 years controlling her every move by threatening not to provide legally-ordered child support. And then when reminded by the court to pay it demanding an accounting of every penny. |
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