Texas creates a market for abortion vigilantism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Texas' new law is the first in the nation to place the entire mechanism of enforcement in the hands of private citizens.
53% : Planned Parenthood v. Casey is still law.
50% : Since it uses a different mechanism for enforcement, the lawsuit challenging it had to include every judge and clerk who could have jurisdiction in enforcing the law in civil court.
48% : Usually (as in almost always) enforcement is the state's job but, according to this new ban, enforcement will only be the purview of regular citizens.
47% : and it recognizes a constitutional right to abortion until fetal viability.
47% : Legislators are hoping that by removing all state actors from enforcement of the law they can avoid constitutional challenges and stay out of federal court.
45% : This award is more like a bounty paid to someone for recovering a criminal or a reward for supplying useful information to authorities.
41% : Except in both those cases, state law enforcement officials are involved and there's no legal cause of action where a person claims to have standing to sue based on someone else's private business.
32% : Since the law includes those who "aided" an illegal abortion in being subject to a suit, it also has the added effect of possibly preventing pregnant people from even seeking counsel on abortion.

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