For state Rep. Donna Howard and former state Sen. Wendy Davis, two women whose political careers have included fighting for abortion rights, the end of Roe v. Wade gives way for GOP lawmakers to chip away at even more reproductive health protections.
in April in response to Texas’ abortion law passed last year — which effectively banned abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy — claiming the law was “blatantly unconstitutional” and was written “to make a mockery of the federal courts.”
Howard has been a state representative since 2006. She is a registered nurse and the chair of the Texas House Women’s Health Caucus. She has also been vocal about her opposition to last year’s abortion law, and she testified in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee last year about its effects.
“[Abortion] is something that’s very common to all of us,” Howard said. “The way the laws have been written to ban abortion have been done in such a way that they have not considered the impacts on the lives of so many of us, the damage that is done, the hurt that is forced upon us.” The two Texans warned that the fight to curb reproductive rights is far from over. After the court’s draft opinion leaked in May, some state Republicans said they wanted toBeyond that, they worry about efforts to restrict contraceptive care, the morning after pill and in vitro fertilization. Davis pointed to the platform the Texas Republican Party voted on last week — a nonbinding list of priorities — that said life starts at fertilization.
Davis and Howard also emphasized that abortion will not go away after the ruling — its illegality just forces people to resort to more dangerous methods to terminate pregnancies. And the people facing those risks are often of a lower socioeconomic status who cannot afford to travel to another state where the procedure is legal.
Howard also said the state Legislature should add exceptions for rape and incest in its trigger law. The law has exceptions only to save the life of the pregnant person or if they risk “substantial impairment of major bodily function.”Howard also called on Republicans to increase access to maternal care services.
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