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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
imageTexas 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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