"It's easy to forget that Texas' bounty bill, S.B. 8, was once at the epicenter of the nation's abortion politics. In 2021, Texas passed the law, which allows literally anyone to sue providers and those who aid them any time an abortion is performed after six weeks of pregnancy. The law created a blueprint for other conservative states and was upheld by the Supreme Court later that year-prior to the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade."
"It also had major impacts: leading clinics to stop offering procedures after six weeks and eventually producing an increase in both births among teenagers and infant mortality across the state. But now, S.B. 8 seems quaint, a relic of 2021-just like reporters discussing the " post-Trump era" or Ben Affleck and J.Lo giving it another try. Texas now enforces a law that bans abortion from fertilization and another, passed just this year, that authorizes suits against anyone who mails, provides, manufactures, or distributes abortion pills."
Texas’s S.B. 8 authorized private lawsuits that allowed anyone to sue providers and aides after six weeks of pregnancy. The law became a blueprint for other conservative states and was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2021. Clinics stopped offering procedures after six weeks, and the law contributed to increases in teenage births and infant mortality in Texas. Texas now enforces a fertilization-to-birth ban and a new law authorizing suits related to abortion pills. Bounty-style laws are central to disputes over censoring speech, advocacy, and donations tied to abortion. Attorneys general are suing Planned Parenthood and Mayday Health over safety claims and informational advertising.
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