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Opinion | The precedent for the Texas abortion law? The Fugitive Slave Act.

Sep 10, 2021 View Original Article
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45% : In arguing in his Sept. 7 Tuesday Opinion essay, "Texas shows why Roe v. Wade needs to be overturned," that Texas's antiabortion law should lead to overturning Roe v. Wade, Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead asserted that citizen suit provisions in environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act are the inspiration for the Texas law's empowerment of citizens to sue anyone who assists a woman in obtaining an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.

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