Protestors march in Texas to fight the new abortion law.Photo: Sergio Flores/Getty
A website for whistleblowers to report people who violated thenew, highly-restrictive Texas law banning abortionsafter six weeks of pregnancy has been shut down for a second time in a week after two different web hosts said it violates their terms of service.
The website was initially on hosting provider GoDaddy, butthe company kicked it off last week, saying that it violated its terms of service. Texas Right to Life tried to move the site to web host Epik, but on Saturday the company also said it went against their terms of service.
“We’re exploring various long-term plans for the domain registration,” the group’s spokeswoman, Kimberlyn Schwartz,toldThe Washington Post. “For now, ProLifeWhistleblower.com is redirecting to TexasRightToLife.com only while we move hosts.”
After thelaw went into effect at midnight on Sept. 1, protesters started submitting fake reports to the whistleblower site. TikTok, Twitter and Reddit users and coders had organized to flood the site with tips saying, for example, that Gov. Greg Abbott, who signed the law, had violated it, along with characters from the Avengers. Others used the attachment upload feature to paste in the script from the 2007 cartoonBee Movieor pornographic images.
Schwartz said that Texas Right to Life had received other tips before the site was shut down, and that they’re “not afraid of the mob,” in a post on their website. “Anti-life activists hate us because we’re winning.”
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The Texas law has led to a nationwide outcry from abortion rights proponents, who point out that six weeks is well before many people are aware that they’re pregnant. The law does not provide any exceptions for pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest.
On Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the Justice Department islooking at “all options"to remove the law and will work to help abortion clinics in the state that are “under attack.” The Supreme Court is expected to look at the law and whether it and other similar abortion bans in additional states are in violation of the precedents established with Roe v. Wade.
source: people.com
