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> Can you elaborate on what would be bypassed by "patrolling?" Well, we saw this play out in the last couple years in Texas—they set up their laws so that abor
by blahedo 2y ago
> Can you elaborate on what would be bypassed by "patrolling?"
Well, we saw this play out in the last couple years in Texas—they set up their laws so that abortion enforcement was performed by civilians (i.e. not cops, not the government), specifically to throw sand in the gears of any countervailing judicial efforts (i.e. making it impossible to sue anyone to force them to stop it, because it's just a game of whack-a-mole at that point).
- Terr_ 2y ago> in Texas—they set up their laws so that abortion enforcement was performed by civilians A law [0] which, IMO, is a flat-out travesty of justice, kind of like if Texas Republicans had passed a law saying: "No private citizen shall be guilty of assault or liable in a civil trial for striking someone who spoke on the Ministry of Truth's totally voluntary prohibited ideas list." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Heartbeat_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Heartbeat_Act