re: Mega church pastor says: Penalizing Women for Abortion Is Not Pro-Life

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That being said, criminalizing the women is the same as the church’s stance against gays too long. We can’t minister to these people if we’re throwing them in jail.

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I haven't taken the time to read the Texas stuff. What is the proposed crime re: the mother?

Practically speaking, if you outlaw the abortion procedure then clinics and "doctors'" offices that now perform abortions would disappear or go black market.

So, I'm trying to think of the way in which a mother would be implicated. It seems it would have to be either getting busted as part of a "sting" or "raid" of an illegal operation. Or someone the woman confided to rats out the woman (that would apply to mother-performed-abortions).

It seems too isolated and impracticable to enforce to ever be a true issue.

Is Texas really taking this on?