Houston-area state legislator wants to block websites containing abortion information

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Representative Steve Toth of Conroe filed House Bill 2690, which he calls the “Women and Child Safety Act” on Feb. 23.

The bill would require internet service providers to “make every reasonable and technologically feasible effort to block Internet access to information or material intended to assist or facilitate efforts to obtain an elective abortion or an abortion-inducing drug.”

The legislation specifically calls out six groups with websites that help people access abortion pills.

In a series of tweets, one of those targeted groups, Hey Jane, called the bill a “blatant attack of freedom of speech and commerce. HB 2690 is the first bill of its kind and reflects the extreme lengths that anti-abortion politicians will go to prevent even the knowledge of this safe effective abortion treatment.”

The bill would also let individuals sue people who maintain abortion access websites, make it illegal to fund someone to travel out of state for the purposes of obtaining an abortion and criminalizes abortion funds that help Texas get abortions in another state.

Seth Chandler, a professor with the University of Houston Law Center, says the bill could face legal challenges even before it would take effect, if passed, in September.

“This is a very serious bill. And for people who are pro-choice, they better bring their A-game to oppose it because it’s written in such a way as to take maximum advantage of recent Supreme Court decisions. Because this bill is more aggressive in the way it goes after information about abortion. It’s going to bring people who care about the First Amendment or just care about profits into the picture,” Chandler said.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/03/07/houston-area-state-legislator-wants-to-block-websites-containing-abortion-information/

[sanatanadharma]

1. Under the same logic about women and child safety blue states could ...

As guns are the leading cause of child death ( read recently), it is time to protect our sons and daughters.

Under the same logic about women and child safety blue states could block all gun-related promotion, sales, glorification sites.
Stop the grooming!

[Walleye]

2. "Their A game?" What do they think this is?

Women have been figuring out how to terminate their pregnancies as necessary since the beginning of humanity. We are not stupid

[Scrivener7]

3. Zoomed last night with my Houston area loved one. She's lived there for almost 40

years. She wants to come home to New York. I really hope she does.

[Liberal In Texas]

4. It's probably another of the crazy bills introduced every 2 years in the Lege.

It probably won't go anywhere.

BUT: It shows that these fascists are attempting to chip away at freedom (actual freedom, not what they call freedom.)

Some very dark language in the bill:

The bill would also let individuals sue people who maintain abortion access websites, make it illegal to fund someone to travel out of state for the purposes of obtaining an abortion and criminalizes abortion funds that help Texas get abortions in another state.

It just show what gerrymandering will do to our local legislatures.