Laboratories of misogyny
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Idaho just enacted its very own Fugitive Uterus Act:
Idaho on Monday became the first state to adopt a copycat of an unusual new Texas law that relies on ordinary citizens to enforce a ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy as a way of getting around court challenges to its constitutionality.
The Idaho House, led by Republicans, approved the bill, 51-14, and sent it to Gov. Brad Little. Mr. Little, a Republican, has already signed a separate law restricting abortion that passed last year.
The bill was the latest display of confidence from anti-abortion activists and lawmakers across the country. Both sides of the abortion debate anticipate that by summer, the Supreme Court could pare back or overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
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The court has also declined to intervene to stop the Texas law, which took effect in September. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court said it was unable to stop the ban because the law explicitly prohibits the state officials who were sued from enforcing it.
On Monday, the sponsors of the Idaho bill said they were encouraged by those decisions.
“Texas’ clever, private course of action did good,” said Representative Steven Harris, the bill’s co-sponsor in the Idaho House. “It stopped physical abortions, chemical abortions in their tracks.”
To those who objected that the bill was unconstitutional, Mr. Harris noted that “Texas has already made two visits to the Supreme Court.” And, he added, “abortions are still being stopped in Texas.”
Remember when Sam Alito threw a huge temper tantrum because a writer pointed out that the Court had allowed Texas to nullify Roe? Apparently Republicans in the Gem State don’t take him seriously either, and it’s one of the few things they’re right about.