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Tell Congress to Protect Women's Health NOW
Women's Reproductive Health IS health care.
Extremists in Texas have essentially banned abortion in that state - in direct violation of the protections laid out in Roe v Wade. According to the Supreme Court, abortion access cannot be restricted before viability of a fetus - generally recognized between 22 and 24 weeks of gestation. Texas's SB8 bans abortion at 6 weeks based on factually inaccurate 'medical' information claiming there is a heartbeat. Around 6 weeks, the cardiac pole begins to pulse, but there is no circulatory system for it to push blood through. But extremists have been pushing this medical inaccuracy for over a decade trying to outlaw abortion around the country.
To make matters worse, lawmakers worked to move violation of their ban outside of the criminal justice arena, making the U.S. populace responsible for enforcing this egregious legislation. Anyone across the country can file suit against anyone in Texas who may have assisted of abetted a woman in obtaining an abortion in violation of the ban - or anyone who may have intended to help a woman - for up to four years after the event. These suits may be filed in any Texas civil court. Those targeted can include the doctor, nurses, clinic administrators, hotel clerks, taxi or Uber drivers, servers at a diner, anyone who may have helped facilitate the abortion in any way, for a bounty of at least $10,000. And if someone from a clinic is found to have violated the law, the state MUST close that clinic.
Congress has long had an option of codifying the protections from Roe v Wade into federal law. The Women's Health Protection Act would do just that. It is past time that Congress mandated that women's health IS health care and that an abortion is a decision between a woman and her doctor and is a private matter.
Congress must act NOW to protect reproductive rights. More lawsuits are in the pipeline to the Supreme Court that could result in the overturning of the protections defined almost 50 years ago - and SCOTUS has agreed to hear one in the coming months from Mississippi. Add your name below to urge Congress to protect reproductive rights for once and for all.
Extremists in Texas have essentially banned abortion in that state - in direct violation of the protections laid out in Roe v Wade. According to the Supreme Court, abortion access cannot be restricted before viability of a fetus - generally recognized between 22 and 24 weeks of gestation. Texas's SB8 bans abortion at 6 weeks based on factually inaccurate 'medical' information claiming there is a heartbeat. Around 6 weeks, the cardiac pole begins to pulse, but there is no circulatory system for it to push blood through. But extremists have been pushing this medical inaccuracy for over a decade trying to outlaw abortion around the country.
To make matters worse, lawmakers worked to move violation of their ban outside of the criminal justice arena, making the U.S. populace responsible for enforcing this egregious legislation. Anyone across the country can file suit against anyone in Texas who may have assisted of abetted a woman in obtaining an abortion in violation of the ban - or anyone who may have intended to help a woman - for up to four years after the event. These suits may be filed in any Texas civil court. Those targeted can include the doctor, nurses, clinic administrators, hotel clerks, taxi or Uber drivers, servers at a diner, anyone who may have helped facilitate the abortion in any way, for a bounty of at least $10,000. And if someone from a clinic is found to have violated the law, the state MUST close that clinic.
Congress has long had an option of codifying the protections from Roe v Wade into federal law. The Women's Health Protection Act would do just that. It is past time that Congress mandated that women's health IS health care and that an abortion is a decision between a woman and her doctor and is a private matter.
Congress must act NOW to protect reproductive rights. More lawsuits are in the pipeline to the Supreme Court that could result in the overturning of the protections defined almost 50 years ago - and SCOTUS has agreed to hear one in the coming months from Mississippi. Add your name below to urge Congress to protect reproductive rights for once and for all.
By passing WHPA, our legislators would lift barriers to care that disproportionately impact Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, trans and queer people, disabled people, low-income people, and people living in rural areas. When we expand access, we all win.
Click the button below to join with ACA Consumer Advocacy and other organizations and individuals around the country to tell Congress to codify the protections of Roe v Wade now.