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Texas AG Threatens Seattle Hospital With Jail Unless It Provides Trans Patient Data
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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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I’ve been concerned Texas and other states would be looking for this kind of thing for abortions as well. Everyone has been telling me that this kind of thing is impossible and no one would ever try to go after a patient based on medical procedures done out of state.
I’m also concerned that Texas could issue an arrest warrant for medical personnel or people facilitating abortion travel who reside in California (for example) such that it becomes inadvisable to drive through Texas, or even have a layover.
It’s not paranoia if they’re actually after you.
IIRC the way the law works now is that any private citizen, regardless of whether or not they have any sort of relationship with the pregnant person, can sue anyone who “facilitates” abortion for Texas citizens. That includes taxi drivers, family members, maybe even gas station workers, etc. There is also a county that is (or has been) attempting to ban the usage of fucking roads to get to abortion facilities in other states, effectively barring you from travelling anywhere if there is a possibility you may be pregnant. Freedom!
Holy Handmaid's Tale, Batman! 🤬
It's inadvisable to drive through Southern states already due to cops. They hold that the normal constitutional protections don't apply due to the border, they have deported American citizens, they have been caught planting drugs, the vast majority of civil asset forfeitures are people who had under $1000 seized without evidence literal highway robbery.
Then there were the ladies who were legally kidnapped and taken to a hospital to have their buttholes search on a vague suspicion of drugs
https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/08/02/texas-state-troopers-caught-on-camera-probing-womens-privates-arent-isolated-incidents-lawyers/
But wait years later they actually passed a law making it illegal to probe your asshole without a warrant because that's something you need a law for
https://reason.com/2015/05/11/why-is-that-cops-finger-in-your-butt/
Which is why they then got sued for getting a warrant on a flimsy pretext and having a doctor do it...then continued to do it themselves as well
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lawsuit-cops-subjected-woman-to-11-minute-body-cavity-search-during-traffic-stop/
Basically you may or may not get raped or robbed by the police even before this unpleasantness.
But wait there's more if you are pregnant and they believe you represent a danger to your fetus they reserve the right to hold you until you give birth in a prison shower like they did to that druggy chick!