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Regarding Texas, here's a comment from one of today's threads:
(from) Skylar Green
People talk about using the [Texas report-an-abortion-seeker] website to troll or protest by naming male politicians. I don't think these people care. That's not going to work. The state will happily pay millions of dollars to have someone wade through the trolls.
I think it's gonna have to be scorched earth. You see, people who report through this system don't really have to prove beyond all doubt that anyone got an abortion. And they are shielded from any liability for being wrong or from having to cover court costs if their report doesn't go anywhere. So the potential for abuse was literally written into the bill. All anyone has to do is simply provide names of people who either received, performed, or provided material assistance toward an abortion.
So? Report. Seriously. Not "Greg Abbott is a poopy butt" but really go down their supporter lists, their donor lists, their voter rolls, and their family trees. Report all of them. Why? Because of course if you just go after the politicians, they will ignore their own names in the logs but some random on the street who sends them $50 every year will not register to them. And when their supporters get caught up in this insanity the supporters will cave and demand the law be repealed. Going after the base is the only way, as realistically, this would be almost impossible to defend against. The accused must suffer the burden of proof to defend themselves against something that may or may not have even happened. Because how do you prove someone for sure got an illegal abortion? Did they tell everybody about it? Did they keep a receipt for their illegal procedure? No, of course not. The state itself would have to go scorched earth just to follow up on any reports they want to pursue, and the accused must retain legal counsel and defend this at their own expense, otherwise the state will render summary judgment against them which would also cost them crazy money. Maybe someone did get an abortion and if so they didn't make that decision lightly and should be left alone. But if they didn't it's still hard to prove that they didn't and would just get steamrolled by the system. So if that's what the TX legislature wants, for innocent people to be hurt and to be afraid of having to be accused, give it to them.
That's the way to fight this. Though it's not ethical, I'll say it for sure. It's political war and there's no Geneva Convention for politics.
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