Flipboard News Desk<p>The Texas Senate has approved a bill that will empower citizens to sue anyone who “manufactures, distributes, mails, transports, delivers, prescribes, or provides” abortion pills to Texans for at least $100,000 in damages, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TexasObserver</span></a></span> reports. It will now head to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk. Mary Tuma looks at how this new law, modeled after the 2021 "bounty-hunter"-style six-week abortion ban, could have repercussions throughout the United States. “It will fuel fear among manufacturers and providers nationwide, while encouraging neighbors to police one another’s reproductive lives, further isolating pregnant Texans, and punishing the people who care for them,” said Blair Wallace, policy and advocacy strategist on reproductive freedom at the ACLU of Texas, in a statement.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/LNsrDo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/LNsrDo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USLaw</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abortion</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ReproductiveFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReproductiveFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ReproductiveJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReproductiveJustice</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WomensHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHealth</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a></p>