A group of Texas Republican state legislators plans to introduce a bill targeting Sidley Austin and other law firms that have made pledges to cover travel expenses for employees seeking abortions in states where the medical service will be unavailable.
The Texas Freedom Caucus said it will introduce legislation in the next session that imposes “additional civil and criminal sanctions on law firms that pay for abortions or abortion travel,” according to a letter sent to Sidley and shared by the caucus on Twitter on Thursday. The letter was addressed to Yvette Ostolaza, the Texas-based chair of Sidley’s management committee, and claimed that the firm was exposing itself to criminal liability.
“A law firm in Texas pledged to reimburse the travel costs of employees who leave Texas to murder their unborn children,” the caucus tweeted. “We are putting them and others on notice of the illegality and consequences of their actions under pre-Roe statutes.”
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the caucus, chaired by state Rep. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, has sent similar letters to other firms or businesses. Attorney General Merrick Garland said following the Supreme Court’s decision last month in a Mississippi case that overturned Roe v. Wade precedent establishing a constitutional right to an abortion that the Justice...
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