Days before Politico reported Monday that a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion indicates a majority of justices intend to overturn Roe v. Wade, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted an alarming claim about victims of rape in Texas.
Ocasio-Cortez was addressing the claim from right-wing politicians that “the extreme left is taking over.” To that, Ocasio-Cortez asked “WHERE” in all caps.
“In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
Texas has some of the strictest laws restricting access to abortion. As discussion and concern among liberals rises for Roe v. Wade — the landmark 1973 ruling that established a right to abortion — and what this means for Texas, let’s look at Ocasio-Cortez’s claim.
Texas law targets abortion providers
We reached out to Ocasio-Cortez’s media office and campaign email addresses but did not hear back.
She seems to be referring to Senate Bill 8, which took effect in September.
The law prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and leaves enforcement up to the public, allowing any person to sue abortion providers or people who aid or abet illegal abortions. There are no exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest.
But the law specifically prohibits a rapist from suing: “Notwithstanding any other law, a civil action under this section may not be brought by a person who impregnated the abortion patient through an act of rape, sexual assault, incest, or any other act prohibited by Sections 22.011, 22.021, or 25.02. Penal Code.”
This provision is the only limit placed on who can sue under the law.
In addition, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that a victim’s rapist could sue the victim. However, SB 8 permits people to sue providers and those who aid and abet someone who gets a prohibited abortion, not the person seeking an abortion.
In other words, University of Houston law professor Seth Chandler said, the person seeking an abortion could not be sued under this law, but anyone helping the person could.
“Now, it is true that the defendant in an SB 8 action may need to prove that the plaintiff wasn’t a rapist,” Chandler wrote in a follow-up email. “It’s not entirely clear (since there are no cases) on whom the burden of proof lies. But to go from that to saying that Texas allows the rapist to sue strikes me as a canard.”
Our ruling
Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on April 29, “In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion.”
The law specifically bars a rapist from suing the victim who sought a prohibited abortion. The law also allows actions against abortion providers but not the patient for procedures past a pregnancy’s six-week mark.
We rate this claim False.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Statement: “In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion.”
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“Truth Means Nothing To AOC”
Truth Means Nothing To the corrupt puppet president Joe “B”iden Obama.
Truth Means Nothing To the treasonous socialist Democrat Party.
Truth Means Nothing To the treasonous socialist Democrat Party’s supporters.
To Democrats, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History are all irrelevant, If the Democrats do not WANT to believe them or they disagree with them. Democrats will just make up their own, Gender, Truth, Facts, Reality and History to fit what they WANT to believe or fits into the Con or Deception that they are running at the time.
SHE LIES. we already knew that.
spot on scruffy i could not say it any better.
Truth does not matter to AOC—the Squad—a good part of Congress—Joe Biden and his entire administration—the Democrat Party in general.
But they are the best at jumping to conclusions—making false allegations—citing fiction as fact—reacting out of emotion—and spreading monstrous lies that get larger as they are passed further down the line.
Thjey are like a bunch of scorpions having been exposed to alcohol, stinging themselves to death.
AND you can bet, she will NEVER EVER aplogize for this outright falsehood.
If you eliminated the need for abortions in Texas of Foreign women raped while illegally entering the USA, the abortion rate in Texas would be cut in half. OAC wouldn’t make it halfway across the river with all the drugs hidden in her body cavities, the emptiest being her brain.
And the voters elect someone to the position of creating laws for citizens to abide by but can’t read existing laws without putting their own personal spin on it and get it wrong. Is it any wonder they don’t understand the purpose and intent of The Constitution of the United States was to restrain government from overreach and give the power to the people. Quite teaching CRT and focus on reading and comprehension of words and phrases like: FREEDOM, Congress shall make no law, Reserved to the PEOPLE!
First of all, abortions due to rape constitute about 1% of all abortions. Abortions due to incest are about .5% of all abortions.
What the law in Texas does is allow others, perhaps most specifically the fathers of the pre-born human beings, to have a say and to seek redress should someone decide it is OK to abort their children.
From “Shooter”: “The truth is what I say it is.”
The only guy who can truly say that is the Truth Himself, Jesus.
I don’t think AOC ever met Him. Pray for her.
Maybe after the mid terms, if her constituents can manage the requisite autocraniorectalectomy, part of her job description will be asking, “Do you want fries with that?” and “Would you like to make the a Happy Meal?” On the other hand, as rich as “public service” has made her, maybe she’ll just be asking the chauffeur to bring her stretch Tesla to the door.
Of course the truth means nothing to Alexandria Obviously Communist and the rest of her Communist cronies. Like their father the devil they’d rather tell a lie and rot in Hell forever than tell the truth and go to Heaven.
She’s true to her communist ideology. Can’t ever argue about that.
Hee Haw, Hee Haw, Hee Haw! There goes the bug eyed donkey face again.