Jim Crow tactics are reborn in Texas abortion law

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Jim Crow tactics are reborn in Texas abortion law

by Stefanie Lindquist, Arizona State UniversityThe new Texas law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to enforce racist Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that aimed to disenfranchise African Americans.Rather than giving state officials, such as the pol...

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