Texas Prosecutors Can't Target Groups That Fund Out-Of-State Abortions

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Texas Prosecutors Can't Target Groups That Fund Out-Of-State Abortions
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-new...groups-that-fund-out-of-state-abortions-judge

(Reuters) - Local prosecutors in Texas cannot use state laws that are more than 60 years old to prosecute organizations that help fund and arrange travel for Texans to obtain abortions in other states where it is legal, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin said that 1961 state abortion laws, which were rendered unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade establishing a nationwide right to abortion, were not revived when the Supreme Court overturned Roe last June.

The pre-Roe laws include criminal penalties for people who help others obtain an abortion.
Pitman's order, which is preliminary, will remain in place while abortion funding groups, including Fund Texas Choice, The North Texas Equal Access Fund and The Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, move forward with a lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of the laws.

The groups filed their lawsuit not long after last June's Supreme Court ruling, saying they risked prosecution for helping Texans obtain legal abortions in other states. They cited statements by Paxton and by some state lawmakers suggesting that the pre-Roe laws criminalized funding or facilitating such abortions.
Pitman wrote that while the pre-Roe laws could be read to criminalize helping with out-of state abortions, they were implicitly repealed when Texas passed new abortion restrictions after Roe.
 

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Pitman wrote that while the pre-Roe laws could be read to criminalize helping with out-of state abortions, they were implicitly repealed when Texas passed new abortion restrictions after Roe.
Existing abortion restrictions are implicitly repealed when further abortion restrictions are passed! ^_^

"You can't do illegal stuff but you can help other people do illegal stuff." ^_^

So Pitman is a joke, then. This idiocy will last all of ten seconds.
 
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Hey look, the test case for preventing pregnant women from crossing state lines and punishing them if they come back not pregnant.
And then subpoenaing their menstrual records in the process, from the party of liberty and small government.
 
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"You can't do illegal stuff but you can help other people do illegal stuff."
It's perfectly legal to do abortions in other states. And states can't restrict people from traveling to do what's legal in those states. Internal travel restrictions are legal in North Korea but not in the United States.
 
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It's perfectly legal to do abortions in other states. And states can't restrict people from traveling to do what's legal in those states. Internal travel restrictions are legal in North Korea but not in the United States.
For now.
 
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It's perfectly legal to do abortions in other states. And states can't restrict people from traveling to do what's legal in those states. Internal travel restrictions are legal in North Korea but not in the United States.

For now. Democracies usually die by suicide. We shall see.
 
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