The Supreme Court could still put a stop to the law—or 85% of the state’s abortions could now be declared illegal, cutting off abortion access and potentially forcing clinics to close.
that some clinics may be forced to close and a director at Whole Women’s Health said the abortion provider has already struggled to recruit and retain staff.
SB 8 is expected to result in major barriers to abortion access—and potentially lead some to undergo abortions without medical supervision—with the pro-abortion rights group the Guttmacher InstituteTexans seeking abortions will now have to travel an average of 248 miles one way to obtain one, 20 times as far as before SB 8 took effect.
Abortion rights groups predicted in their lawsuit that SB 8’s enforcement by private citizens will lead to a surge of “vigilante enforcement lawsuits” that could potentially bankrupt abortion providers by forcing them “to spend massive amounts of time and money to defend themselves in lawsuits across the state in which the deck is heavily stacked against them.”85%.
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