{"id":734782,"date":"2021-09-09T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734782"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:06:13","slug":"the-6-biggest-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-texas-abortion-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-6-biggest-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-texas-abortion-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6 Biggest Lies You\u2019ve Been Told About The Texas Abortion Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-6-biggest-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-texas-abortion-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734782&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235005988-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the days since the Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a pro-life law prohibiting abortion on any child with cardiac activity, politicians and media outlets have unleashed a torrent of misinformation. Here are a few of the most common myths, along with the facts you need to know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Texas Heartbeat law \u201cis clearly unconstitutional\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While announcing the Biden administration\u2019s lawsuit against the state of Texas, Attorney General Merrick Garland said, \u201cThe law is clearly unconstitutional\u201d under Supreme Court precedent. Similarly, MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AMGdJE38sbk\">gaped<\/a> in disbelief that \u201cthe U.S. Supreme Court \u2026 willingly went along with the GOP\u2019s ploy to strip Americans of a constitutional right \u2026 that\u2019s been recognized by the Supreme Court for 50 years.\u201d And CNN\u2019s legal analyst Areva Martin <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/cnr\/date\/2021-09-02\/segment\/19\">found<\/a> it \u201cstunning that the Supreme Court would allow a law which is so blatantly unconstitutional, so blatantly in violation of the principle established by <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> almost 50 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Constitution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pro-life-americans-are-like-suicide-bombers-msnbc-guest\">contains no right to abortion<\/a>, which had been illegal <a href=\"https:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/med-law\/legalities-of-abortion\/\">far longer than 50 years<\/a> when the U.S. Supreme Court deemed it an unalienable right in 1973. In his <em>Roe v. Wade <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/us-supreme-court\/410\/113.html\">ruling<\/a>, Justice Harry Blackmun simply claimed that \u201csexual privacy\u201d emanated from a \u201cpenumbra\u201d of the Constitution; strung together a few previous court rulings on privacy; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-rights-constitution-show\/\">asserted<\/a>, \u201cThe right of privacy \u2026 is broad enough to encompass a woman\u2019s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But those who follow the original intent of the framers say this is pure artifice. Justice Clarence Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/07\/02\/judges-ignoring-the-constitution-on-abortion-since-1973\/\">wrote<\/a> that \u201c<em>Roe<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>is grievously wrong for many reasons, but the most fundamental is that its core holding \u2014 that the Constitution protects a woman\u2019s right to abort her unborn child \u2014 finds no support in the text of\u201d the Constitution. Even CNN\u2019s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/cnr\/date\/2016-06-27\/segment\/03\">acknowledged<\/a> in 2016, \u201cThe issue of whether the Constitution protects a woman\u2019s right to choose abortion remains to this day the most controversial issue in constitutional law.\u201d The \u201cconstitutional right to abortion\u201d is rooted in highly controversial and sometimes contradictory Supreme Court decisions, not the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An unborn child at 6 weeks has no heart and no heartbeat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some have attempted to refute the Texas \u2018heartbeat law\u2019 on the grounds that a child at six weeks of pregnancy has neither a heartbeat, nor a heart. \u201cThe medical-sounding term \u2018fetal heartbeat\u2019 is being used in this law \u2014 and others like it \u2014 in a misleading way,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2021\/09\/02\/1033727679\/fetal-heartbeat-isnt-a-medical-term-but-its-still-used-in-laws-on-abortion\">wrote<\/a> NPR (at your expense). \u201cThe sound generated by an ultrasound in very early pregnancy\u201d is merely \u201ccardiac activity,\u201d which is \u201cquite different\u201d from a fetal heartbeat. That contradicts a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/13.7\/2011\/09\/14\/140397576\/when-does-life-begin\">previous NPR article<\/a> \u2014 written (at your expense) before the current controversy \u2014 which states:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><em>Usually, heartbeat can be detected by vaginal ultrasound somewhere between 6 \u00bd \u2013 7 weeks. The heartbeat may have started around six weeks, although some sources place it even earlier, at around 3 \u2013 4 weeks after conception.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To me, this is a remarkable transition. \u2026 The first heartbeat is, in a sense, the transition between something with dividing cells to something that has a systemic integration, organs communicating with other organs.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Chris Cuomo went further, implying that a child at 6 weeks does not have a heart. In fact, multiple embryology textbooks and scientific authorities refer to a child as having a heart, and a heartbeat, at the sixth week of pregnancy. For a more in-depth discussion of the scientific facts concerning a fetal heartbeat and embryonic heart development, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chris-cuomo-suggests-babies-dont-have-a-heartbeat-at-6-weeks-heres-what-science-says\">see this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<em>Roe<\/em> [<em>v. Wade<\/em>] was just overturned in the state of Texas\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To hear many pundits tell it, the fact that the Supreme Court did not immediately strike down the Texas law means that it has revoked <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. \u201c<em>Roe <\/em>was just overturned in the state of Texas,\u201d former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards told MSNBC\u2019s Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday. Others have also put the jurisprudential change in the past. Jeffrey Toobin told Don Lemon that, if the Supreme Court did not suspend the law, \u201cit means that <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> is not good law anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the Supreme Court issued a procedural ruling. In recent history, it has stopped states from enforcing pro-life protections on the grounds that those laws would violate <em>Roe<\/em>. The majority of justices said that cannot be done in this case, because the Texas law may be enforced by \u201cany person\u201d in the state \u2014 so the plaintiffs do not know <em>whom&nbsp;<\/em>to sue. The ruling has nothing to do with the legal rationale (or lack of same; see above) behind the legal reasoning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, which the court will likely take up in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Texas Heartbeat bill \u201ccreates a vigilante system\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a briefing on the dismal August 2021 jobs report on September 3, President Joe Biden said, \u201c[T]he most pernicious thing about the Texas law\u201d is that \u201cit, sort of, creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out to \u2014 anyway.\u201d He went on to say, \u201cthis sounds ridiculous \u2014 almost un-American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cvigilante\u201d makes people feel uncertain and endangered by calling to mind images of the Wild West, but it is misused here. A vigilante is \u201c[s]omeone who personally claims to enforce law and order, but lacks legal authority to do so,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/vigilante\">according<\/a> to Cornell University\u2019s Legal Information Institute.<\/p>\n<p>That does not apply to the Texas law. Texans who sue abortionists are not acting in a lawless way; they have exercising the legal authority that Texas lawmakers have delegated to them. Rather than calling pro-life Texans \u201cvigilantes,\u201d the more proper term might be \u201cdeputies.\u201d &nbsp;In fact, AG Garland used this term on Thursday, saying the law \u201cdeputizes\u201d citizens to enforce its provisions, before calling pro-life citizens \u201cbounty hunters.\u201d (See below.)<\/p>\n<p>The Texas law imposes a <em>civil penalty<\/em> instead of a <em>criminal <\/em>one. While criminal law puts people in prison, civil laws let people sue for economic damages. Successful lawsuits allow plaintiffs to receive both \u201cactual costs\u201d and \u201cgeneral damages,\u201d which are usually a multiple of their actual costs.<\/p>\n<p>While politicians usually impose criminal rather than civil penalties, judicial activists have made it clear that any state law will be enjoined. Since the courts had not made that determination about private citizens, the state gave the people of Texas the legal authority to enforce civil penalties against those performing a procedure, which 45% of Texans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/03\/02\/texas-gambling-abortion-marijuana-confederate\/\">oppose<\/a> in all or most cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Texas Legislature has deputized the state\u2019s citizens as bounty hunters\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to \u201cvigilantes,\u201d the Left has branded pro-life Texans as \u201cbounty hunters.\u201d The phrase originated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/20pdf\/21a24_8759.pdf\">dissent<\/a> of Supreme Court Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2009\/06\/sotomayor%E2%80%99s-racialist-judicial-activism\/\">Sonia Sotomayor<\/a>, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and <a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2010\/05\/elena-kagan-and-social-issues\/\">Elena Kagan<\/a>: \u201cIn effect, the Texas [l]egislature has deputized the [s]tate\u2019s citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors\u2019 medical procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s tart turns of phrase, Sotomayor\u2019s description took on a life of its own. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-abortion-law-bounty-hunters-citizens\/\">Texas abortion ban turns citizens into \u2018bounty hunters<\/a>,\u2019\u201d wrote CBS News\u2019 Aimee Picchi. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) told MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid that \u201cbasically\u201d pro-life advocates \u201care bounty hunters\u201d who are \u201cgonna get $10,000 for a successful lawsuit for undermining constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like \u201cvigilantes,\u201d this term conjures up pictures of brutal cowboys hunting people down, but it, too, is deceptive.<\/p>\n<p>When a bail bondsman puts up his money to bail someone out of jail, he charges the accused a small percentage of the total bond: e.g., if bail if $10,000, the accused may put up $1,000. The bondsman gets his money back when the defendant shows up at trial \u2014 but if he \u201cjumps bail,\u201d the bondsman sends a bounty hunter to arrest the accused, turn him in to authorities, and get his own money back. He then pays the \u201cbounty hunter\u201d a portion of his money.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not what\u2019s happening here: Texans who sue Planned Parenthood are more like individuals who file a lawsuit against any other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/pianned-parenthoods-past-decade-3-3-million-abortions-6-billion-taxpayer-dollars\/\">billion-dollar corporation<\/a> that has inflicted harm on innocent people. And Democratic administrations generally oppose tort reform and favor trial lawyers\u2019 ability to sue freely.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Joe Biden has engaged in his own version of bounty hunting: The Obama-Biden Justice Department regularly sued corporations, then doled out the civil penalties to left-wing groups aligned with the Democratic Party. Critics called it a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartland.org\/news-opinion\/news\/congress-considers-bill-to-stop-lawsuit-settlement-slush-funds\">slush fund<\/a>\u201d that benefited the administration\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Texas heartbeat law \u201cout of the mainstream\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pro-life, anti-choice movement is so extreme,\u201d said Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday. The Texas heartbeat law is \u201cso out of the mainstream of Republican public policy ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, more Americans support the Texas heartbeat law than oppose it. A plurality, 46% of Americans, support the law while 43% oppose it, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/abortion\/fight_over_texas_abortion_law_divides_voters\">Rasmussen poll<\/a> released on Tuesday. Similarly, 56% of likely voters \u2014 including one-third of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratsforlife.org\/\">Democrats<\/a> \u2014 favored Missouri\u2019s heartbeat bill in a July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slu.edu\/research\/research-institute\/big-ideas\/slu-poll\/july-2021-poll\/slu-poll-july2021-crosstabresults.pdf\">poll<\/a> from Saint Louis University and YouGov. That poll found that women were more likely to support the heartbeat bill than men.<\/p>\n<p>The legacy media live in such a left-wing echo chamber that they have never entertained the possibility that they, rather than the voters, may be out of the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days since the Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce a pro-life law prohibiting abortion on any child with cardiac activity, politicians and media outlets have unleashed a torrent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}