Texas Legalizes Abortion Bounty Hunting | Supreme Court Approved

hey everyone me kevin here i am shocked

what kind of law texas has just

implemented in terms of basically the

bounty hunting that it now enables it is

crazy in this video we're going to break

down the new law in texas that bans

abortions after a six weeks we're not so

much going to do a roe v away debate

here since i know of audience members on

both sides of the abortion debate but

we're going to talk about the actual

mechanics of this law and how crazy it

really is

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the topic so

we had a vote in the supreme court late

last night of five to four and the

decision was not to block a an abortion

bill in texas

that basically skirts 50 years of legal

precedent following roe v wade

that is

texas engineered a law

and passed it banning abortions after

six weeks despite the fact that in 1973

roe v wade declared a woman's right to

abortion a constitutional right now it's

worth noting just to clear this up again

we're not going to get deep into the

abortion debate but it's worth noting a

lot of folks look at states like

california and say oh my gosh liberals

want to kill babies it's worth noting

with the abortion laws in california are

such that a woman can choose to have an

abortion up to a baby's viability now a

baby's viability is generally somewhere

between 18 to 23 weeks and this is a big

difference because between 18 and 23

weeks these are usually the times where

women get anatomy scans for their babies

to make sure the baby is healthy uh the

babies are tested the baby until

until essentially the 23rd 24th week

can't survive on its own yet so that's

usually uh the cutoff for abortions

then the only time you would have late

term abortions after that is if carrying

the child would kill the mother for

example so uh and that's that's just an

example in california every state has

different laws around exactly this now

the six a week cut off is really

interesting because a lot of women don't

actually know that they're pregnant by

six weeks especially women who don't

have regular periods because they have

pcos or for some other reason

and quite frankly even if you miss your

period and got tested you might already

be five five and a half weeks pregnant

because when when you're deemed pregnant

they seem to add on a week so even if

you have perfectly timed periods and you

test they seem to tell you you're

already five weeks pregnant even though

you're four weeks past you know missing

but anyway that gets complicated

so six weeks is

pretty restrictive and it's picked six

weeks is picked as the moment where a

heartbeat begins uh in sort of the

embryo or baby at that point

uh and uh it the texas law says that if

a heartbeat is detectable and abortion

cannot be conducted so that six weeks is

sort of could be a little bit earlier

could be a little bit after

85 to 90 of abortions happen after six

weeks because six weeks is just so darn

early so this effectively bans abortions

in texas almost all abortions are

effectively banned in texas

and it skirts these supreme court laws

that we've had and the ultimate decision

of roe v wade back in 1973

by

really enabling

a law that says hey no abortions after

six weeks

and the mechanics of the law are really

quite odd see rather than criminalizing

doing an abortion after six weeks

texas law

deputizes individuals to civilly sue

anyone who assists or aids or abets in

an abortion so

that excludes the patient so if a

patient uh says i'm gonna have an

abortion anyway

they can't get sued but anyone else

anywhere in the country or potentially i

don't think the world probably somewhere

in the country

could decide to sue any individual staff

member uber driver counselor or anyone

who helped pay for the procedure or help

somebody get to the procedure or

whatever anyone in the united states

could sue those doctors staff uber

drivers or whatever

and

they could claim up to ten thousand

dollars and legal fees

basically meaning individuals in the

united states can now sue anyone in

texas who potentially helps someone in

texas get an abortion uh and get up to

ten thousand dollars per case plus their

legal fees back like this is going to be

a pretty unprecedented minefield for uh

doctor staff uber drivers i mean like

what's an uber driver supposed to do

like you look more than six weeks

pregnant and you're going to a doctor's

office yeah i ain't taking you like

that's scary uh anyone who advises for

example hey like

you should have an abortion for medical

reasons or because you were raped or

because of incest or whatever you should

go to a different state that person who

advises that can now get sued for ten

thousand dollars plus legal fees

and anybody can sue them like if you're

watching this in new york city or you're

in washington you could literally sue

somebody that you suspect is advising

somebody or helping somebody get an

abortion in texas and win 10 000 plus

legal fees like

the the abortion debate is one thing

that i'm not gonna go down the rabbit

hole of or or take a stand on in this

video

but this law

is really weird

especially since it doctors who end up

getting sued

have to disclose to hospitals and for

their license renewals that they were

sued

for potentially aiding or abetting an

abortion

and even if their case is dismissed they

still have to disclose that they were

sued for potentially aiding or abetting

an abortion like this is a great way to

scar the reputations of a lot of

potential doctors i mean basically

anybody going near anything with

abortions probably going to get sued

like crazy and what's even more kooky

about this law is

if you lose the lawsuit

as a as somebody who just sues from

let's say new york or whatever let's say

you sue from new york used to a doctor

and you're like i'm going to sue you

because i suspect you helped somebody do

an abortion in texas

if you lose

you do not have to pay

the other person's attorney fees

so you don't have to pay the doctor's

attorney's fees so if you're a doctor or

i'm sorry if you're an attorney let's

say in new york and you just want to sue

like crazy and that doctor has to hire

an attorney to defend themselves and you

totally falsely alleged uh uh

made allegations in a lawsuit you do not

have to reimburse the doctor for their

legal fees

but if the doctor loses and you win you

get your legal fees covered it's the

craziest law i feel like i've ever seen

it's very very very one-sided against

basically the entire abortion industry

the way this is written this law is

basically saying if you even utter the

word abortion in texas you're going to

get sued

again

staff members doctors uber drivers

counselors anybody just saying hey you

should go out of state to get an

abortion hey we'll help you get out of

state hey we'll help pay for your travel

to get out of state lawsuit lawsuit

lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit i think if this

loss ends up standing they're literally

going to be law firms who just all day

long sue anyone related to the abortion

industry in texas

it's insane now the

again

not going into the arguments here on roe

v wade you know life begins at

conception versus viability in that

debate

but it's worth mentioning that back in

the 60s people used to do when abortion

was illegal people used to do their own

abortions and they would die because

they're using coat hangers or you know

crazy things or whatever trying to give

themselves abortions you had back alley

abortions you had people going to other

countries to try to get abortions

crazy crazy crazy things here and this

law is is very wild in terms of how far

it goes

to try to protect uh essentially the the

embryo or or baby

uh in preventing anybody from being

involved in this abortion industry

so uh now you did have a chief justice

john roberts say that this was very

unprecedented especially since you're

basically delegating the enforcement of

this law not to police officers but to

any person like a bounty hunter kagan

also criticized the law for rushing or

criticized the decision for rushing the

decision without having full

argumentation on both sides you also had

biden respond calling this an assault on

women's rights and he's looking at all

options that the united states federal

government could take to respond

to this abortion ruling in texas there

are concerns that now other states

throughout the country especially red

states could just copy and paste this

texas law

you had sotomayor she was very upset in

her opinion

wondering why the the the justices who

were for this texas law only wrote a

one-paragraph decision she suggested

that they were essentially sticking

their heads in the sand found it a

ridiculous that complete strangers could

inject people uh or could inject

themselves into other people's lives for

a ten thousand dollar reward uh she

referred to this as bounty hunting as

well and uh yeah wow i think where we

stand at this point is really that you

could potentially have congress pass a

law around abortion to try to try to

streamline this because that would be

your sort of check and balance

is having a law that's passed by

congress and then a law signed by joe

biden and this could compel the supreme

court to potentially reverse a kind of

law like this or block a law like this

but uh this is a big big big big shift

and the ten thousand dollar bounty

hunting

very very bizarre application of a new

law so this kind of gives you a

breakdown of everything that's going on

around this abortion issue hopefully you

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