How Texas Plans to Trap Abortion Seekers - Ms. Magazine

Anti-abortion activists and elected officials hope to keep abortion seekers walled in within the borders of their home states.

Mark Lee Dickson launched the Sanctuary Cities Initiative in Texas in 2019 with the goal of “protecting our cities by outlawing abortion, one city at a time” Dickson ’s first step towards the realization of a national abortion ban.

Two Texas towns and two counties have made it illegal to transport an individual seeking an out-of-state abortion on the roads under their authority.

LZ: These new measures also locate authority to enforce them in the general public, incentivizing private parties as bounty hunters who are entitled to a civil damages award for successfully reeling in trafficker.

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