Author Topic: Texas has spent close to $6 million fighting abortion. Here’s how.  (Read 559 times)

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Offline Elderberry

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Houston Chronicle by Andrea Zelinski Jan. 1, 2020

State officials take pride in protecting Texas’ image as a defender of the unborn, but those fights have cost taxpayers $5.6 million to protect a law struck down as unconstitutional and others that have no resolution in sight.

The legal fights over those state laws and administrative directives that have built additional restrictions on abortions and providers have led Texans to spend $3.1 million playing defense. The costs include staff salaries, travel expenses, filing fees and expert witnesses, according to state records released to Hearst Newspapers. In one case, Texas was also ordered to pay abortion providers $2.5 million for its attorneys’ fees.

“I think it’s a backward priority for the state of Texas,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, a group regularly challenging the state’s abortion laws in court. “The politicians are introducing legislation that’s unconstitutional and it’s not a secret. Even some of the people introducing it know it’s unconstitutional.”

Anti-abortion advocates say little is more important than protecting the sanctity of life and contend the cost to taxpayers is worth it.

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Houston Chronicle by Andrea Zelinski Jan. 1, 2020

State officials take pride in protecting Texas’ image as a defender of the unborn, but those fights have cost taxpayers $5.6 million to protect a law struck down as unconstitutional and others that have no resolution in sight.

The legal fights over those state laws and administrative directives that have built additional restrictions on abortions and providers have led Texans to spend $3.1 million playing defense. The costs include staff salaries, travel expenses, filing fees and expert witnesses, according to state records released to Hearst Newspapers. In one case, Texas was also ordered to pay abortion providers $2.5 million for its attorneys’ fees.

“I think it’s a backward priority for the state of Texas,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, a group regularly challenging the state’s abortion laws in court. “The politicians are introducing legislation that’s unconstitutional and it’s not a secret. Even some of the people introducing it know it’s unconstitutional.”

Anti-abortion advocates say little is more important than protecting the sanctity of life and contend the cost to taxpayers is worth it.

More: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Texas-has-spent-close-to-6-million-fighting-14942477.php
The abortion supporter has it exactly backwards.

The state's highest mission is to protect its citizens and keeping them from getting killed is certainly a high priority.
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The abortion supporter has it exactly backwards.

The state's highest mission is to protect its citizens and keeping them from getting killed is certainly a high priority.
She only cares about whole wimmen. Not the ones who get shredded on the way out.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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