Bounty for bodies: Women hunted as US anti-abortionists go archaic
A new law in Texas puts a target on anyone helping to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, offering what is in effect a $10 000 bounty to citizens who sue abortions clinics, doctors and anyone who aids in an abortion, writes Nadine Dreyer
12 September 2021 - 00:00
Observe the bounty hunter: he's the man with no name who can blast a tin can from 50m with his .45 Colt. No bald eagle swoops on his prey with more deadly intent. The villain he seeks is a depraved murderer and violator of innocents. He tracks him down through the forbidding Texan landscape and nails the evil son-of-a-gun after a climatic shoot-out...
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