Texas man files legal action to probe ex-partner's out-of-state abortion

[ItsjustMe]

https://archive.is/20240503172820/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/05/03/texas-abortion-investigations/


The previously unreported petition reflects a potential new antiabortion strategy to block women from ending their pregnancies in states where abortion is legal.

As soon as Collin Davis found out his ex-partner was planning to travel to Colorado to have an abortion in late February, the Texas man retained a high-powered antiabortion attorney — who court records show immediately issued a legal threat.

If the woman proceeded with the abortion, even in a state where the procedure remains legal, Davis would seek a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the abortion and “pursue wrongful-death claims against anyone involved in the killing of his unborn child,” the lawyer wrote in a letter, according to records.

Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned.

[keithbvadu2]

1. Don't travel out of state for an abortion. Travel out of state for a vacation or visit.

You can suddenly decide to have an abortion while you are there.

[slightlv]

2. Just the last two days,

I've read here on DU where Louisiana has "slipped" in an amendment to a law designed to "protect women" from "forced abortions." The amendment they slipped in was to make it illegal to use or have in your possession the two "abortion drugs." One big problem, besides the obvious, is that these drugs are used for other purposes.

Then I also skimmed the headline where two southern states are currently trying to hone down the laws and ways to enforce women from leaving their states. Get that? Women would no longer be able to travel freely in the United States.

I don't know how we're going to put the genie back in the bottle... especially after so many of us have been raising these dangers for so many years and had everyone telling us it's not a "pressing" issue, or that we were being hysterical. It just makes me so much more angrier, remembering all those conversations.

Hubby doesn't think there's going to be any way to stop this and return to a rule of law for all people without bullets flying... neither of us want that. But with no way to rein in the courts, how do we put these people back under their rocks? And when will women's rights... NOT just reproductive freedom, but women's HUMAN rights... be acknowledged and legislated once and for all? I don't know about anyone else, but I'm tired of myself, my sis, my niece, and my friends being treated as less important than corpses.