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Texas Is Trying To Scrub Abortion Off the Internet
Final week, Texas launched a invoice that will make it unlawful for web service suppliers to let customers entry details about learn how to get abortion drugs. The invoice, referred to as the Girls and Baby Security Act, would additionally criminalize creating, enhancing, or internet hosting an internet site that helps folks search abortions.
If the invoice passes, web service suppliers (ISPs) shall be compelled to dam web sites “operated by or on behalf of an abortion supplier or abortion fund.” ISPs would additionally must filter any web site that helps individuals who “present or support or abet elective abortions” in nearly any method, together with elevating cash.
The Supreme Courtroom’s overturning of Roe v. Wade left the nation with a patchwork of reproductive well being legal guidelines of various restriction or permission. That drove curiosity in securing abortion entry throughout state strains, and Republican state lawmakers shortly set their sights on limiting the distribution of abortion drugs and associated data.
The invoice is a part of a pattern in Texas, the place lawmakers are working to create a particular, closed-off Texan web.
The fifth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals lifted a block on a Texas’s HB 20, a regulation that prohibits social media platforms from moderating content material or blocking customers based mostly on their “viewpoints,” which is akin to saying social media platforms can’t average content material in any respect. The free speech warriors in Texas appear unconcerned that content material moderation is in itself a type of speech, and the truth that the structure provides personal companies the identical proper to precise themselves that residents have.
“Proper now, if this state regulation goes into impact, we’re caught in a scenario the place we would see ISPs combating in courtroom saying they’ve a First Modification proper to host this content material,” mentioned Evan Greer, director of the non-profit Battle for the Future.
5 years in the past, a invoice like this may violate federal regulation. Keep in mind Web Neutrality? Web Neutrality compelled ISPs to behave like cellphone firms, treating all visitors the identical with nearly no capability to restrict or filter the content material touring on their networks. However Web Neutrality was repealed in 2018, primarily reclassifying web service as a luxurious with little regulator oversight, and upending customers’ proper to free entry of the online.
“We actually want lawmakers to get up and perceive that tech coverage points aren’t wonky considerations,” Greer mentioned. “These are bread and butter mother and pop points, and so they have simply as a lot of an impression on folks’s reproductive rights as laws shifting for or in opposition to abortion entry on the whole.”
Democrats have been working to revive Web Neutrality ever since, and so they in all probability would have completed so already if Republican lawmakers hadn’t been working to cease the important features of presidency. President Biden nominated lawyer Gigi Sohn to fill an empty chair on the FCC in 2021, however Republicans have blocked her nomination ever since.
“One of the concrete issues Senate democrats can do to guard reproductive rights is get off their butts and get Gigi Sohn confirmed,” Greer mentioned.
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Here’s Clemson football, Dabo Swinney’s depth chart for first-round CFP game vs Texas
CLEMSON — Clemson football released its depth chart Monday ahead of its first-round CFP game vs. Texas.
The most notable changes involve the removal of key players who are injured or entered the transfer portal. Backup running back Jay Haynes was removed after suffering a leg injury in the ACC championship against SMU on Dec. 7. Running backs Keith Adams Jr., Jarvis Green and David Eziomume are listed as the No. 2 running back behind Phil Mafah.
Wide receiver Adam Randall also replaced Haynes as the starting kick returner. Clemson’s depth chart removed nickelback Sherrod Covil Jr. and wide receiver Noble Johnson too. Both were backups who entered the transfer portal.
The No. 12 seed Tigers (10-3) will face the No. 5 seed Longhorns (11-2) on Dec. 21 (4 p.m. ET, TNT) in Austin, Texas, at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. The winner advances to play No. 4 seed Arizona State, the Big 12 champion, in the Peach Bowl at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Jan. 1 (1 p.m. ET, ESPN).
Here’s Clemson’s full depth chart before it faces Texas on Saturday:
Clemson football’s offense
QB: Cade Klubnik | Christopher Vizzina
RB: Phil Mafah | Keith Adams Jr. or Jarvis Green or David Eziomume
WR: Antonio Williams | Tyler Brown | Misun Kelley
WR: T.J. Moore | Cole Turner
WR: Bryant Wesco Jr. or Adam Randall | Cole Turner | Hampton Earle
TE: Jake Briningstool | Olsen Patt-Henry | Josh Sapp | Markus Dixon
LT: Tristan Leigh | Mason Wade
LG: Marcus Tate | Harris Sewell
C: Ryan Linthicum | Harris Sewell
RG: Walker Parks | Harris Sewell
RT: Blake Miller | Mason Wade
Clemson football’s defense
DE: Jahiem Lawson | A.J. Hoffler
DT: Payton Page | DeMonte Capehart | Vic Burley
DT: Peter Woods | Tré Williams | Stephiylan Green
DE: T.J. Parker | Cade Denhoff
SLB: Wade Woodaz | Jamal Anderson
MLB: Wade Woodaz | Sammy Brown or Dee Crayton
WLB: Barrett Carter | Sammy Brown or Dee Crayton
CB: Avieon Terrell | Ashton Hampton | Corian Gipson
SS: Kylon Griffin or Tyler Venables | Ricardo Jones
FS: R.J. Mickens | Tyler Venables | Rob Billings
NB: Khalil Barnes | Shelton Lewis
CB: Jeadyn Lukus or Ashton Hampton | Branden Strozier
Clemson football’s special teams
PK: Nolan Hauser | Robert Gunn III
P: Aidan Swanson | Jack Smith
KO: Robert Gunn III
LS (PK): Holden Caspersen
LS (P): Philip Florenzo
H: Clay Swinney
KR: Adam Randall
PR: Antonio Williams
Derrian Carter covers Clemson athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email him at dcarter@gannett.com and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @DerrianCarter00
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Texas AG sues New York doctor who allegedly prescribed abortion pills to woman in Lone Star State
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, has filed a lawsuit against a New York doctor who allegedly prescribed abortion drugs to a woman in the Lone Star State, violating Texas law.
Paxton accused Dr. Margaret Carpenter of mailing pills from New York to a 20-year-old woman in Collin County, Texas, where the woman allegedly took the medication when she was nine weeks pregnant, according to the lawsuit.
When she began experiencing severe bleeding, she asked the baby’s father, who had been unaware she was pregnant, to take her to the hospital.
The filing does not state if the woman successfully terminated her pregnancy or if she experienced any long-term medical complications from taking mifepristone and misoprostol.
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Paxton’s lawsuit is the first attempt to test legal protections when it comes to states with conflicting abortion laws since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending federal protection on the matter.
Texas has enacted an abortion ban with few exceptions, while New York protects access to the procedure and has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has been viewed as implicit permission for doctors to mail abortion pills into states with restrictions.
Texas has promised to pursue cases like this regardless of the shield laws, though it is unclear what the courts may decide on this issue, which involves extraterritoriality, interstate commerce and other legal questions. New York’s law allows Carpenter to refuse to comply with Texas’ court orders.
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It is also unknown whether New York courts would side with protecting Texas’ law, which prohibits prescribing abortion-inducing drugs by mail and prohibits treating Texas patients or prescribing medication through telehealth services without a valid Texas medical license.
Texas’ abortion laws prohibit prosecuting a woman for getting an abortion, but do allow for physicians or others who assist a woman in receiving the procedure to be prosecuted.
The lawsuit says Carpenter, the founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, knowingly treated Texas residents despite not being a licensed Texas physician and not being authorized to practice telemedicine in the state. Paxton urged a Collin County court to prohibit Carpenter from violating Texas law and impose civil penalties of at least $100,000 for each violation.
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“In this case, an out-of-state doctor violated the law and caused serious harm to this patient,” Paxton said in a statement. “This doctor prescribed abortion-inducing drugs — unauthorized, over telemedicine — causing her patient to end up in the hospital with serious complications. In Texas, we treasure the health and lives of mothers and babies, and this is why out-of-state doctors may not illegally and dangerously prescribe abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents.”
Carpenter also works with AidAccess, an international abortion medication provider, and helped found Hey Jane, a telehealth abortion provider.
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