GoDaddy terminates hosting of Texas anti-abortion tip site

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By Tina Bellon | Reuters

AUSTIN – Website hosting work GoDaddy Inc connected Friday terminated services for the proprietor of an anti-abortion website that allows radical to study suspected abortions successful Texas.

“Last nighttime we informed prolifewhistleblower.com they person violated GoDaddy’s presumption of work and person 24 hours to determination to a antithetic provider,” the institution said successful a statement.

Texas has imposed a near-total prohibition connected abortions, which took effect aboriginal connected Wednesday and leaves enforcement up to idiosyncratic citizens, enabling them to writer anyone who provides oregon “aids oregon abets” an termination aft six weeks. Citizens who triumph specified lawsuits would beryllium entitled to astatine slightest $10,000.

Portions of the website which let radical to taxable anonymous tips connected suspected abortions connected Friday showed a GoDaddy notification saying the tract had been locked down.

Texas Right to Life, the anti-abortion radical owning the website, successful a connection said it volition not beryllium silenced, adding that it would enactment its website backmost up.

“Our IT squad is already successful process of transferring our assets to different supplier and we’ll person the tract restored wrong 24-48 hours,” a spokeswoman for the radical said.

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