Abortion-rights advocates said women across the U.S. will now face the reality that Texans have been living with since the passage of the state's so-called 'heartbeat bill.' Texas AbortionIsHealthcare s AbortionIsEssential SupremeCourt RoeOverturned
Women carry a banner through Downtown San Antonio during a protest defending abortion rights.
"The impact of Texas Senate Bill 8 foreshadowed the dangerous consequences of the extreme abortion restrictions this ruling will allow," said U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio."The Supreme Court's action today will force women and girls to carry pregnancies that were conceived through rape and incest and empower extremists to persecute people who suffer a miscarriage or high-risk pregnancy that threatens their life.
However, getting an abortion in Texas was already made far more difficult by SB 8, colloquially known as the"Heartbeat Act," which passed last year. The law made abortions in illegal in Texas once a heartbeat was detected in the womb. As a result, women in Texas seeking an abortion headed to other states and Mexico.
"Texans know all too well the reality of living in a post-Roe world," the statement said."For more than nine months under S.B 8, Texans have been denied access to abortion in their own state and have been forced to continue a pregnancy, seek abortion outside the health care system, or travel hundreds or even thousands of miles if they can secure the funds, time off from work, child care, and transportation needed to access abortion out of state.
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