The Texas law banning abortions after six weeks says anyone can enforce it. The absurdity of the law is best pointed out by the political theater produced by two out-of-state disbarred vigilante lawyers who sued a doctor who performed an abortion in defiance of the law, because they didn't like the law.
The Arkansas vigilante said he was not opposed to abortion and that he sued to force a court to review the law. He described himself as a former lawyer who lost his law license after being convicted of tax fraud (for which he's serving a 15-year prison sentence). He said he sued to force a court to review the Texas law because he didn't "want doctors out there nervous ... quaking in their boots ... "
The Illinois plaintiff, an attorney suspended from the state's bar for sending harassing and threatening emails, asked a court in San Antonio to declare the law unconstitutional. He called it government overreach. In filing his suit, he poked a finger at Republicans saying: "If Republicans are going to say nobody can tell you to get a [COVID] shot they shouldn't tell women what to do with their bodies either." (He said he wasn't aware he could claim up to $10,000 in damages if he won his lawsuit).