Private right of action didn’t start in Texas

Published September 14, 2021 12:00am ET



Progressives and President Joe Biden himself profess outrage over the just-passed Texas abortion restriction law — not only because it constrains what the president has called the constitutional right to abortion but because of its enforcement provision. A law whose enforcement is based on a “private right of action,” we are told, amounts to vigilante justice.

Perhaps so.

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