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Jim Crow tactics reborn in Texas abortion law, deputizing citizens to enforce legally suspect provisions

  • Written by Stefanie Lindquist, Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, Arizona State University
Jim Crow tactics reborn in Texas abortion law, deputizing citizens to enforce legally suspect provisionsTexas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that effectively bans abortion in the state. AP Photo/Eric Gay

The new Texas law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to enforce racist Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that aimed to disenfranchise African Americans.

Rather than giving state officials,...

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