WASHINGTON - Abortion restrictions in Texas and other states are preventing patients from receiving much-needed services, providers and advocates told Capitol...
He cited the state’s already high maternal mortality rates, particularly for black women.
“Although my life and ability to have any future children was put in danger, my life was not in enough immediate danger for the state of Texas to allow for our doctors to perform a medically necessary procedure,” she said. Reps. Michael Cloud, R-Victoria, and Pete Sessions, R-Waco, said the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe returns the issue to the states., both have co-sponsored federal anti-abortion bills in this Congress.
Cloud said there has been a lot of misinformation and fearmongering about the end of democracy in the wake of the Supreme Court decision and ahead of the midterms. Wubbenhorst cited a medical definition of abortion as terminating a pregnancy without a live birth and said the procedure does not prevent or treat any disease.
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