Texas politics gets weirder. First a law makes it illegal to have an abortion in most cases after six weeks of pregnancy. Then, rather than enforce their own prohibition, the state assigns that task to civilian bounty hunters. This has resulted in one abortion doctor making public the fact that he performed an abortion later than the law allowed, just to draw civilian lawsuits to him, so he’d be in a position to sue the state.
He’s actually hoping many seeing his admission in the papers will try to claim their $10,000 bounty from him. Then he’ll sue the state for allowing that. ...