With abortion banned in nearly two dozen states, stories like Kate Cox’s are going to keep happening. And voters, business leaders and even fellow Republicans aren’t turning a blind eye.

12/16/2023
by KATHY SPILLAR, Ms. Magazine

A case out of Texas demonstrates the shocking cruelty and extraordinary lengths to which anti-abortion ideologues will go to deny women access to critical healthcare. The state’s Supreme Court intervened last week and denied an emergency request for an abortion by a woman named Kate Cox. Cox was experiencing fetal abnormalities that made her pregnancy unviable and potentially dangerous. The ruling, which forced Cox to leave the state in order to legally terminate the pregnancy, attracted the ire of even some Republicans, including Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

A fundamental part of the conservative rhetoric used to justify draconian abortion bans is the premise that abortion “hurts women.” But as studies and these real-life cases continue to prove, the opposite is actually true: abortion bans hurt women and endanger their lives—and what’s more, abortion actually helps women.

Continued: https://msmagazine.com/2023/12/16/republicans-business-texas-supreme-court-abortion/