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Sunday, September 3rd, 2023

Abortion providers on two years of Texas ban: ‘We’re living in a devastating reality’

Author:     Mary Tuma
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Thu 31 Aug 2023 | 06.00 EDT
 Link: Abortion providers on two years of Texas ban: ‘We’re living in a devastating reality’
Stephan:  

Yesterday I published an excellent long paper showing how people living in Red states don’t live as long as people in Blue states because of the poor Republican governance. But that’s just the beginning of the Republican inferiority. Here is another story describing how the Republican anti-abortion legislation is destroying healthcare for women, just as is happening in other Red states. I read these articles and papers in the professional literature and am left appalled and saddened by the misery and death the Republicans are causing in the states they control. And continually surprised that the voters in Red states routinely vote against their own wellbeing.

From left: Dr. Alan Braid, demonstrators outside of the Texas state capitol, and Dr. Jessica Rubino. Credit: Gina Ferazzi, Sarah Karlan, Amanda Andrade / The Guardian / Getty

Nearly a year before the US supreme court eviscerated Roe v Wade, the court allowed an unprecedented abortion ban to take effect in Texas, serving as a harbinger of what was to sweep over the rest of the country.

The most restrictive abortion law at the time, with no exception for rape, incest, or lethal fetal abnormality, Senate Bill 8 barred care after six weeks of pregnancy, and carried a private enforcement provision that empowered anyone to sue a provider or someone who “aids or abets” the procedure.

The move successfully wiped out almost all abortion care in the second-most populous state in the US. When Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization hit, the state doubled down, criminally banning all care and solidifying itself as the largest state in the US to outlaw abortion.

In the two years since, Texas abortion providers – some of the first in the US to experience a nearly post-Roe world – […]

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