Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the following on Friday afternoon:
“The extreme left is taking over” WHERE. In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion.
Can anyone name a “far left” policy that extreme implemented anywhere? We can’t even get our party to import cheaper RXs from Canada. foh
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 29, 2022
I would reach out to the congresswoman’s office and request that she clarify what provision, in what law she’s referring to, but that would be a charade since both Ocasio-Cortez and I know that no such provision, in no such law, exists.
The controversial Texas abortion law passed last year that allows private citizens to sue abortionists and others who knowingly aid in abortion procedures after the detection of a fetal heartbeat does not allow women who have had an abortion to be sued. The legislation is, in fact, quite clear on that point. It specifically insists that nothing within it may “be construed to authorize the initiation of a cause of action against or the prosecution of a woman on whom an abortion is performed or induced or attempted to be performed or induced.”
It’s wrong to lie. It’s worse to lie as a public official with a large following. And it’s despicable to lie about a subject so grave.