Pro-choice and anti-abortion advocates both demonstrate outside the the Supreme Court on Monday. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein A California gun rights group filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in opposition to Texas’ new anti-abortion law because of worries that other states could copy it to limit gun ownership. The Sacramento-based Firearms Policy Coalition argued in its brief that “the approach used by Texas to avoid pre-enforcement review of its restriction on abortion and its delegation of enforcement to private litigants could just as easily be used by other states to restrict First and Second Amendment rights.” The Texas law bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected. It delegates enforcement to private citizens, who can sue doctors and others and receive a $10,000 bounty plus court costs if successful. Get Times of San Diego Daily by Email The novel law, which was designed to avoid a federal challenge, has been accused of creating an opportunity for “vigilantes” and “bounty hunters” to target abortion providers. During oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Monday, conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh cautioned that the Texas law could be copied by any state to block other constitutional rights. “There’s a loophole that’s been exploited […]
