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July 13, 2021April 16, 2022Abolition, Reproductive Justice

A New Texas Abortion Law Highlights The Dangers of Citizen Policing

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The law effectively legitimizes citizen policing of pregnancy and abortion, which have previously been policed primarily by the government and abusive partners. CW: lynching, anti-Black violence, miscarriage, feticide  By Kylie Cheung  A Texas abortion ban signed into law earlier this year became one of dozens of disastrous, dehumanizing abortion bills in the state, and could...