Ashley lopez: Is this going to get challenged? Can it get challenged? Now the supreme court hasn't done anything. Might the supreme court do something? Or or what? I mean, justice thelido can do whatever he wants. He can literally weigh in and issue the emergency injunction whenever he wants. And if that person is sued, there are people waiting in the wigs to sue back.
Texas didn't just make it almost impossible to get an abortion, the state made it easy to sue somebody who gets one after about six weeks of pregnancy — and anyone who helps. KUT reporter Ashley Lopez explains.
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