Best known for her 13-hour filibuster against another restrictive abortion law, Davis is suing to block enforcement of Texas’ current near-total ban on abortions. Texas Abortion reproductivehealth AbortionIsHealthcare abortionrights GregAbbott
of a 2013 abortion bill, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Texas’ recent abortion law. The suit claims the law is “blatantly unconstitutional” and written to “make a mockery of the federal courts.”
Davis, who was the Democratic nominee for Texas governor in 2014 and unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2020, donates to and works with the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, an Austin-based abortion fund, Sadler and Mehl say in the suit that they have stopped donating to abortion funds"until the Court clarifies whether and to what extent [they] can face liability for doing so.", R-Deer Park, and three private citizens who have made efforts to bring lawsuits against abortion funds. Cain recently sent cease-and-desist letters to all the Texas abortion funds, accusing them of criminal conduct.
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