A mother of two in Texas filed for divorce in Texas, then discovered she was pregnant. She believed that the husband might use the pregnancy in an attempt to make her stay with him.
She texted two of her friends about her situation, one of whom told her about an organization in Austria that sends abortion pills to people in states where abortion is banned. Both friends said she could stay with them while she took the pills.
Now the ex-husband has filed a wrongful death suit against the woman, her two friends, and a local woman who supplied the pills. He wants a million dollars from each. One of his attorneys is the former Texas solicitor general who helped to write the Texas bounty law that gives private citizens the right to sue others for “conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion.”
Text messages and phone records are part of the suit. One piece of evidence is a photograph of the women dressed up like characters from “The Handmaid’s Tale” from last year’s Halloween.
I’m not going to rant and rave about the Texas law. What I will say is don’t put anything on social media about your own desire to get an abortion. Don’t text. Use burner phones. Use first class mail. Get help in states where abortion is legal. Learn the procedures you need to know. (I know people who have quietly taken classes in how to induce abortions; it’s doable.)
Pro-abortion groups should run ads in states like Texas giving women contact numbers for pills or help. Maybe they already are; I’ll have to look into that. I’d donate to that cause.
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