In interviews, the two women expressed a sense of sorrow over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow states to ban abortions.
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.”The issue is personal for Davis, who terminated two pregnancies in the 1990s. One was an ectopic pregnancy, and in the other, doctors discovered a brain abnormality in the fetus.
Howard’s mission to protect reproductive rights was inspired in part by her daughter. Eleven weeks into her daughter’s pregnancy in 2015, a doctor discovered the fetus had no heartbeat, according to The Supreme Court ruling Friday was the culmination of a decadeslong, unrelenting campaign by anti-abortion advocates to overturn Roe v. Wade, Davis and Howard said. The inevitability of the ruling crystallized after former President Donald Trump appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, giving conservatives a commanding 6-3 majority.“The courts have been able to be a backstop to anti-abortion legislation and efforts throughout these many years,” Howard said.
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 and cannot afford to travel to another state where the procedure is legal.
“If they are claiming to support life and this is in place to bring more life into Texans homes, then let’s make sure we’re giving them the safety net to have the healthiest pregnancy and deliveries and babies possible,” Howard said.
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