What are the key differences between the abortion action taken in Texas and Mississippi? Mississippi is where the law was passed that ultimately overturned...
What are the key differences between the laws passed by Mississippi and Texas?Mississippi’s “Gestational Age Act” bans abortion after 15 weeks except in cases of medical emergency and in cases of severe fetal abnormality.
Further, the state’s Attorney General “shall have authority to bring an action in law or equity to enforce the provisions of this section on behalf of the Director of the Mississippi State Department of Health or the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure. The Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure shall also have authority to bring such action on its own behalf.”
Texas law makes performing the procedure a felony, punishable by up to life in prison and fines of at least $100,000. There are no exemptions for rape, incest or fetal anomaly — only for when the pregnant person’s life is in danger.Texas’ abortion ban which uniquely relies on private citizens to enforce the law, empowering those to sue anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion, not just the providers as Mississippi’s law lays out.
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