Texas’s Opportunistic Abortion Ban Puts Women’s Lives at Risk

Texas’s Opportunistic Abortion Ban Puts Women’s Lives at Risk

4/15/2020
by Dr. Sara Simons

I was midway through my volunteer shift for a Texas abortion fund hotline when the Texas attorney general banned abortions.

I realized something was amiss when I spoke to a college student who had called our hotline that morning, March 23, seeking funding for her procedure.

By the time I reached her that afternoon, the clinic where her appointment was scheduled for March 25 had been shut down until April 21.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2020/04/15/texas-opportunistic-abortion-ban-puts-womens-lives-at-risk/

Anti-Abortion Opportunism

Anti-Abortion Opportunism
There is no good time to restrict access to abortion.

By Rachel Rebouché
April 15, 2020

Over the past few weeks, nine states have tried to implement—with varying degrees of success—measures suspending abortions, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Several more states are poised to include abortion in bans on nonessential procedures. Advocacy groups representing abortion providers filed suit in several states that have used the outbreak as a pretext to further restrict abortion access. So far, the litigation in Texas has taken the most tumultuous path: Last month a federal district court suspended implementation of a new policy banning all abortion care. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit then overturned that decision, allowing the state’s ban to take effect based on a “critical interest in protecting the public health.”

Continued: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/abortion-ban-covid/