Originally posted by seer
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"The Lubbock ordinance also creates a private-enforcement provision. That allows any citizen of Texas to sue anyone that procures, performs, or aids and abets an abortion, other than the unborn child’s mother,”
[My emphasis]
Am I to understand that permits the mother to attempt to abort herself?
If so how will the ruling deal with the purchase of abortifacients from the net [and probably from other countries]?
How will it affect ER staff dealing with a woman brought in haemorrhaging and perhaps with her uterus and/or intestines partly outside her body because she has attempted to abort herself? Do the staff who try to save her risk being sued for "abetting" an abortion?
I can envisage some test cases being brought.
Not to mention the tragedy of newborns being left to die in dumpsters or on rubbish tips.
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