Texas Amps Up Its War on Women

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

For those Americans who are female, fertile, and of child-bearing age, Texas is probably a good state to avoid, especially if you feel some entitlement to be involved in your own reproductive health care decisions.

One of the many pieces of anti-abortion legislation which quickly passed in state legislatures after the Supreme Court threw out Roe v Wade last summer was a statute from the Lone Star state entitled "Texas Senate Bill 8."  Not only does that statute make most abortions illegal after six weeks of pregnancy, it also says that a person who assists a pregnant woman in committing a self-managed abortion has committed the crime of murder and can be sued for wrongful death.  Interestingly, the pregnant woman herself, the one whose fetus is aborted, is not liable under the state law.

Last week there was a civil filing in a Texas county court in which a divorced Texas male brought suit against three females whom he alleges assisted his ex-wife in obtaining abortion drugs and terminating a pregnancy in which he was the father of the fetus.  The man, whose attorneys include a current GOP member of the Texas House of Representatives and a former GOP Solicitor General for Texas, is seeking damages from the three defendants in excess of one million dollars for the wrongful death of the fetus.

The lawsuit alleges that the man's wife discovered she was pregnant in 2022 after the passage of Texas Senate Bill 8 and at a time they were still married, and that she discussed, through text messages, obtaining pills to terminate the pregnancy with two friends.  It further alleges that the third defendant actually obtained the pills and got them to the man's wife.  The couple were officially divorced last month.

The ex-husband who is bringing the suit is apparently also planning on suing the medications' manufacturer in order to learn what pills were used to bring about the abortion.

So now pregnant women in the state of Texas who are distraught over being pregnant have one less avenue for solace and must be extremely vigilant and guarded in any conversations with friends - and personal injury lawyers have one more ambulance to chase!