The law will increase the criminal and civil penalties associated with abortion, but the procedure is already virtually outlawed in Texas. Story by TexasTribune.
Thousands of protesters march through downtown in protest of Senate Bill 8, Texas’ new restrictive abortion law, in October.The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its official judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, clearing the way for Texas’ “trigger law” banning almost all abortions to go into effect Aug. 25.
Those statutes are separate from the trigger law, which the Legislature passed in 2021. That law, which is triggered by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, increases the penalties for performing an abortion up to life in prison. The trigger law also says that the attorney general “shall” bring a lawsuit to seek a civil penalty of no less than $100,000 per abortion performed.
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