Is This Legislation Fair?

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The only exception in this is to save the life of the pregnant person. Anyone, including people who don't live in texas, can sue an abortion provider for providing someone in abortion after that six week ban. And does it make exceptions for things like incest or rape? No, does not. If you are a victim of raper incest, there is no carve out in this bill for you.

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.

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, with help from Amina Al-Sadi, Hady Mawajdeg, and Jillian Weinberger, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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