Texas Spends Nearly $650,000 Defending Anti-Choice Laws

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The State of Texas has spent nearly $650,000 in taxpayer money underwriting state efforts to roll back abortion access over the past two years, according to public records obtained by RH Reality Check.

That’s the amount of money that the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) spent litigating three controversial state laws in 2012 and 2013, according to a breakdown of staff salary and travel expenses provided by the OAG. The breakdown includes a separate item simply called “abortion topic related,” which cost taxpayers just over $100,000 in the same period of time.
The total—$648,340.13, to be precise—represents another hefty taxpayer contribution to some states’ push against abortion access.

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“AUL provides model legislation to anyone who asks for it—media, legislators, etc,” Hamrick wrote in an email to RH Reality Check. “AUL is very careful in determining whether legislation, as passed, is based on AUL’s models, depending on the content of the language.”
AUL says its strategy is to help state lawmakers pass deliberately unconstitutional laws, that directly conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. AUL hopes to provoke a constitutional challenge that will land before the Supreme Court, opening up the possibility that Roe will be overturned.

While AUL is tied to right-wing, free-market groups that typically decry public spending, its legal strategy is premised on the use of public subsidies, in the form of taxpayer dollars that states must spend to defend these deliberately unconstitutional laws.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/01/21/texas-spends-nearly-650000-defending-anti-choice-laws/

[Gothmog]

1. Greg Abbott is a bad attorney

Greg is so weak that he has to use outside counsel