and fight back. lyft and uber both say they will cover legal fees for any drivers sued under the new texas law. and that s relevant, because the law works by preventing state governments from enforcing it. but instead deputyizes private citizens to enforce the law by a civil lawsuit. which can be brought by anyone even if you have nothing to do with the person getting the abortion and you aren t from texas, against anyone associated with the abortion treatment, including a driver for at least $10,000 per defendant. lyft also is donating $$1 million to planned parenthood. social media influencers are doing what they can too. as you can see by the lenl tiktokers bombarded anti-borings with schreck porn and false information. in the last hour since first reporting i don t know what shrek porn is. i m going to let one of the organizers describe the situation via a tiktok video
if you got the ways and means and money you ll be able to get treatment. but if you don t then you won t. it also affects medical providers and the last night on all-in amy hag strom mill miller, the founder of and ceo of whole women s health, the organization challenging the texas abortion ban in the supreme court, spoke about the situation facing providers. we have seen lots of people come in since this law was passed heart breakingly we have had to turn away quite a lot of people. and it s been really really difficult for our staff members who are there because of their commitment to this work, because of their commitment to the human rights and justice issue that was abortion, having to look people in the eyes and deny them care that they could provider just two or three days ago. it s really heart breaking for all of us to be put in this position. the fight is being joined, though. meanwhile, several companies and groups are starting to speak out
and so i think it s very clear that the filibuster ought not apply to anything akin to a constitutional violation. it allows one person to let his or her views take precedent over the constitution of the united states. and so i think that roe v. wade, founded privacy rights of the constitution, ought not be subjected to the filibuster. i spoke to your colleague judy chu who has since 2013 been trying to codify abortion rights into law. nancy pelosi says you ll have a floor vote on that. her bill has 216 cosponsor meaning likely to pass in the house. 48 firm supporters in the senate plus two republicans supporting it. so 50 in the senate plus the vice-president which means under simple majority if you got rid of the filibuster you could do
i m all in favor of a congressional solution the reality is that that s not available given the current state of congressional rules, given the slim democratic majority and given the need for any legislation on in subject to is your mount a filibuster in the senate. and that s a whole other segment. so where things go from here is something that you suggested in your opening, which is, why would this stay in texas? i m looking i m imagining a landscape six months from now where you could have eight states, a dozen states, passing some version of the texas law. by the way, there is no reason it would have to only prevent abortions at six weeks. any state could pass a law that says we prohibit abortion entirely. it s just as unconstitutional as the fetal heartbeat law that texas has. and but we don t enforce it ourselves so leave us alone. and the justices, i think,
enacted. the way that the organization will be performing disobedience is to make sure our clients remain and have access to care. it s a very daunting law. it s a law that will very highly oppress people of color. and vulnerable groups like our clients and the migrant population at large. tell me more about that. because we have said that all week. but explain why this disproportionately affects women of color, women in vulnerable situations, including immigrants and refugees, people who live people of low wealth. absolutely, specifically with the migrant population, this will highly impact them. they are already a very vulnerable population. although the law makes exceptions for emergency situations, it does not make any exceptions for our victims of