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[{'start': '0.320', 'end': '4.480', 'text': 'Texas is home to some of the strictest'}, {'start': '2.320', 'end': '6.240', 'text': 'abortion laws in the United States. But'}, {'start': '4.480', 'end': '8.240', 'text': 'this week, Texas senators approved a'}, {'start': '6.240', 'end': '10.559', 'text': 'bill that provides more clarity for when'}, {'start': '8.240', 'end': '12.639', 'text': 'a doctor can legally perform an abortion'}, {'start': '10.559', 'end': '14.160', 'text': "to protect a woman's health or save her"}, {'start': '12.639', 'end': '16.240', 'text': 'life. And it received bipartisan'}, {'start': '14.160', 'end': '18.640', 'text': 'support, but Democrats say more needs to'}, {'start': '16.240', 'end': '20.880', 'text': 'be done. Capital Bureau reporter Dylan'}, {'start': '18.640', 'end': '22.880', 'text': 'McKim has more.'}, {'start': '20.880', 'end': '24.960', 'text': 'This week, senators debated at length'}, {'start': '22.880', 'end': '27.119', 'text': 'over a bill that will allow Texans to'}, {'start': '24.960', 'end': '28.720', 'text': 'sue abortion pill manufacturers and'}, {'start': '27.119', 'end': '30.960', 'text': 'those that deliver their product to'}, {'start': '28.720', 'end': '33.120', 'text': 'Texas. Those companies could be sued for'}, {'start': '30.960', 'end': '35.280', 'text': 'up to $100,000.'}, {'start': '33.120', 'end': '38.000', 'text': 'Women are being harmed. Women are being'}, {'start': '35.280', 'end': '40.000', 'text': 'hurt by these pills. Republican Senator'}, {'start': '38.000', 'end': '42.000', 'text': 'Brian Hughes says abortion pills are'}, {'start': '40.000', 'end': '43.920', 'text': "already illegal in Texas, but they're"}, {'start': '42.000', 'end': '45.440', 'text': 'still being shipped in. He hopes this'}, {'start': '43.920', 'end': '46.640', 'text': 'bill will have a chilling effect on'}, {'start': '45.440', 'end': '48.640', 'text': 'those shipments. The very next'}, {'start': '46.640', 'end': '51.360', 'text': 'paragraph. However, Texas Democrats'}, {'start': '48.640', 'end': '53.120', 'text': 'argue this bill is unconstitutional, and'}, {'start': '51.360', 'end': '55.280', 'text': 'they are upset with language in the bill'}, {'start': '53.120', 'end': '57.440', 'text': 'that says Texas courts cannot make a'}, {'start': '55.280', 'end': '59.960', 'text': 'judgment on its constitutionality. Or is'}, {'start': '57.440', 'end': '63.039', 'text': 'this a flagrant,'}, {'start': '59.960', 'end': '64.559', 'text': 'brazen transgression of the principle of'}, {'start': '63.039', 'end': '67.200', 'text': 'separation and powers on which this'}, {'start': '64.559', 'end': '68.479', 'text': 'country and state was founded? No sir.'}, {'start': '67.200', 'end': '70.320', 'text': 'We make the rules. We set the'}, {'start': '68.479', 'end': '72.560', 'text': 'jurisdiction. The state of Texas has'}, {'start': '70.320', 'end': '74.880', 'text': 'already tried to punish one out of state'}, {'start': '72.560', 'end': '77.680', 'text': 'doctor. Last year, Attorney General Kin'}, {'start': '74.880', 'end': '80.080', 'text': 'Paxton sued a New York-based doctor,'}, {'start': '77.680', 'end': '82.240', 'text': 'saying they sent abortion inducing pills'}, {'start': '80.080', 'end': '85.320', 'text': 'to a woman in Colin County here in'}, {'start': '82.240', 'end': '88.960', 'text': 'Texas. Now, a judge in Texas did issue a'}, {'start': '85.320', 'end': '91.759', 'text': '$100,000 penalty to that doctor, but the'}, {'start': '88.960', 'end': '94.400', 'text': 'question is, can Texas courts force that'}, {'start': '91.759', 'end': '96.159', 'text': 'judgment in New York courts? When one'}, {'start': '94.400', 'end': '98.000', 'text': "state's courts reach a final decision,"}, {'start': '96.159', 'end': '100.560', 'text': "the other state's courts have to respect"}, {'start': '98.000', 'end': '102.880', 'text': "it, but that's not true in every single"}, {'start': '100.560', 'end': '104.799', 'text': 'circumstance. Mary Ziggler said New York'}, {'start': '102.880', 'end': '107.200', 'text': 'and other states have shield laws'}, {'start': '104.799', 'end': '108.880', 'text': 'protecting their residents from civil or'}, {'start': '107.200', 'end': '111.439', 'text': 'criminal penalties for providing'}, {'start': '108.880', 'end': '113.040', 'text': 'reproductive care. She says Texas will'}, {'start': '111.439', 'end': '114.560', 'text': 'have to fight this case in federal'}, {'start': '113.040', 'end': '117.280', 'text': "court. Whatever happens, it's going to"}, {'start': '114.560', 'end': '119.759', 'text': "be a mess. In Austin, I'm Dylan McKim."}, {'start': '117.280', 'end': '121.600', 'text': "And Hugh's bill has a companion bill in"}, {'start': '119.759', 'end': '125.200', 'text': 'the House already. That bill has been'}, {'start': '121.600', 'end': '125.200', 'text': 'left pending in the committee.'}]