{"id":782,"date":"2023-03-08T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=782"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:21:07","slug":"these-texas-das-refused-to-prosecute-abortion-republican-lawmakers-want-them-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/these-texas-das-refused-to-prosecute-abortion-republican-lawmakers-want-them-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"These Texas DAs refused to prosecute abortion. Republican lawmakers want them stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newest battle centers on criminal district attorneys in Texas&#8217; big cities, who are mostly Democrats. Some of these chief prosecutors have told their communities they will use their inherent discretion and<a href=\"https:\/\/fairandjustprosecution.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/FJP-Post-Dobbs-Abortion-Joint-Statement.pdf\"> not zealously pursue criminal cases<\/a> against women who seek abortions or<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dallas_DA\/status\/1496896055828434948\"> families who obtain gender-affirming health care <\/a>for their children. (Several later said they would make decisions on a case-by-case basis.)<\/p>\n<p>But declarations from prosecutors have led conservative lawmakers in Texas<a href=\"https:\/\/beta.iga.in.gov\/legislative\/2023\/bills\/senate\/284\/details\"> and elsewhere<\/a> to propose legislation seeking to curb the power of DAs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/03\/03\/1160475174\/these-texas-das-refused-to-prosecute-abortion-republican-lawmakers-want-them-sto\">National Public Radio, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest battle centers on criminal district attorneys in Texas&#8217; big cities, who are mostly Democrats. Some of these chief prosecutors have told their communities they will use their inherent discretion and not zealously pursue criminal cases against women who seek abortions or families who obtain gender-affirming health care for their children. (Several later said &#8230; <a title=\"These Texas DAs refused to prosecute abortion. Republican lawmakers want them stopped\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/these-texas-das-refused-to-prosecute-abortion-republican-lawmakers-want-them-stopped\/\" aria-label=\"More on These Texas DAs refused to prosecute abortion. Republican lawmakers want them stopped\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}