Today, we're going to talk about Texas' law banning abortions after six weeks and the Supreme

Court's decision to allow that law to stand.

And I interviewed two state representatives from Texas, Gina Inohosa, where we discussed

the legal implications of this new law, and Inaminhadas, where we discussed the political

implications.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

Now in a move that I definitely didn't see coming but probably should have, the Supreme

Court has functionally gutted Roe, opting to allow SB 8, which is the Texas law banning

abortion in the state after six weeks to stand.

And there's some dispute between whether this actually guts Roe considering the court

didn't rule on the actual merits, but the practical effect here.

That abortion will be outlawed before most women even know their pregnant is that Roe

V Wade, which affords women a constitutional right to access safe and legal abortions,

is now gone.

So as a result of this law, there's basically a vigilante system in Texas where private

citizens are empowered to police the ban themselves.

And so anyone can follow lawsuit against anyone else who's aided someone getting an abortion

with a potential for a $10,000 pay off.

And so we're basically going to have a system where you have private citizens ratting other

people out.

Like, you know what's so crazy about this?

This law was passed by the same party that fear mongers on a literal daily basis about

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