By Michael Woyton
Sounds as if Texas has found another way to control women’s bodies, and it involves the male sex partners of women who choose to have an abortion.
The Texas Right to Life organization will begin advertising on X and Facebook in February to find husbands, boyfriends and sex partners of women in the state who have had abortions, the Washington Post reported.
The organization’s goal is to get the men to file lawsuits against anyone who helped the women end their pregnancies.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in December that was the first of its kind, citing information from a “biological father” who was unnamed and accused a doctor in New York of illegally providing a Dallas-area woman with abortion pills.
The state prohibits abortions in nearly all circumstances and prohibits a person from performing, inducing or attempting an abortion. The only exception is when the woman’s life or health is at risk, and even then there are restrictions as to who can perform the abortion and saving the life of the fetus unless that increases the risk of the woman’s death or impairment.
Paxton and the Texas Right to Life people are hoping that they can get men to help control the women they got pregnant by targeting doctors and others who help facilitate the abortion.
The Post reported that the unnamed woman in Paxton’s lawsuit chose not to tell the father about the pregancy and took abortion pills. He found out she had been pregnant after he took her to the hospital when she experienced heavy bleeding after taking the pills.
Intimidating the women through the possibility of being identified publicly is a feature not a bug.
Alex Wolf, an attorney who represents women targeted in several of these types of lawsuits, said it is a way to control or harass a former partner and “may just be the latest instance of an abusive tactic.”
So it’s all about control and keeping the women submissive.
And remember that Project 2025 aims to ban medication abortion nationwide, increase denials of abortion care and have states report abortion data, including residence and reason an abortion was sought.
Reproductive health care should not be criminalized.
Read the entire Washington Post article here.
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