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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs there a limit on how many times you have to pay $10,000?
Like if an entire group focuses on a woman, do they all get to sue her individually and in essence, bankrupt her?
Edit: I mean sue the people that help her. Can they sue them multiple times?
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)zuul
(14,624 posts)The Texas legislature really did not think this through. I hope this bounty bullshit clogs up the court system for years.
FBaggins
(26,735 posts)It is an affirmative defense that youve already paid the statutory amount to a different claimant.
Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)In other words, a person who has paid $10,000 cannot claim to have paid the full statutory amount to a different claimant, because the statutory amount has a floor, not a ceiling.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)just a really ridiculous law.
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)This whole notion is diabolical.
MineralMan
(146,298 posts)Nobody bothered to analyze questions like that when it was written. So, it will be found to be both unworkable as well as extremely unfair in terms of equal treatment under the law.
Stupid people make stupid laws.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,017 posts)The ACLU/Planned Parenthood/NARAL are going to be all over that shit. And if the Supreme Court opinion is to be believed, they will have standing and the courts will be able to block this shitshow.
Bluethroughu
(5,168 posts)They passed legislation against the minorities.
Now against the women.
Disabilities.
Unions.
Whoa, this sounds awful familiar.
IA8IT
(5,554 posts)Monsters Monsters Monsters
tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)You know its going to happen.
treestar
(82,383 posts)If Provider A does ten abortions, for ten different women, would there be 10 cases against that provider?
Beausoleil
(2,843 posts)But her abortion would provide fodder for the bounty hunters to target doctors, nurses, uber drivers, you know, anybody who had any fleeting relationship with her private decision. I assume there's no limit to how much bounty could be acquired for one abortion.
LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)getting sued and having to pay out $10,000 to multiple people. Like a gang up to bankrupt a target.
Beausoleil
(2,843 posts)a bounty hunter can get. Or how many bounty hunters can suck off the same pig trough.
I think the point is humiliation and punishment for anyone who wittingly or unwittingly participates in providing a private medical service that's protected by the Constitution. Without blaming the woman personally. That would be unconstitutional.
What a farce.
Indykatie
(3,696 posts)Until men are inconvenienced by the draconian laws they pass to control women's bodies they will continue to press forward. Someone should run a Stop Fucking campaign in TX.