{"id":5975,"date":"2021-09-02T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2021-09-02T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T11:43:42","slug":"abortion-ban-to-take-effect-in-texas-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5975","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Ban To Take Effect in Texas on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Passed in May,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/05\/14\/anyone-who-aids-or-abets-abortion-could-be-sued-under-new-texas-heartbeat-bill\/?preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the law makes it illegal<\/a>&nbsp;to perform an abortion once fetal cardiac activity is detected. That starts six weeks into pregnancy, and about two weeks after a woman can tell she is pregnant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes the measure (Senate Bill 8) more novel\u2014and extreme\u2014is that it also lets anyone (even people outside the state) sue anyone they think has violated the law by performing a prohibited abortion or aiding and abetting the provision of an illegal abortion. Among other things, aiding and abetting here includes&nbsp;&#8220;paying&nbsp;for&nbsp;or reimbursing&nbsp;the&nbsp;costs&nbsp;of an abortion through&nbsp;insurance&nbsp;or&nbsp;otherwise,&#8221; the law states.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TOZkYzM1Ci\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/08\/30\/abortion-ban-to-take-effect-in-texas-on-wednesday\/\">Abortion Ban To Take Effect in Texas on Wednesday<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Abortion Ban To Take Effect in Texas on Wednesday&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/08\/30\/abortion-ban-to-take-effect-in-texas-on-wednesday\/embed\/#?secret=UcQJkigpJi#?secret=TOZkYzM1Ci\" data-secret=\"TOZkYzM1Ci\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Passed in May, the law makes it illegal to perform an abortion once fetal cardiac activity is detected. That starts six weeks into pregnancy, and about two weeks after a woman can tell she is pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the measure (Senate Bill 8) more novel\u2014and extreme\u2014is that it also lets anyone (even people outside the state) sue anyone they think has violated the law by performing a prohibited abortion or aiding and abetting the provision of an illegal abortion. Among other things, aiding and abetting here includes &#8220;paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion through insurance or otherwise,&#8221; the law states.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,21],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}