BREAKING: We just filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Supreme Court asking them to restore essential, time-sensitive medication abortion services in Texas while our case challenging @GovAbbott's #COVID19 order proceeds. #AbortionIsEssential
2. For nearly three weeks, providers in Texas have had to cancel appointments for hundreds of patients, and today, abortion remains virtually inaccessible in the state due to @GovAbbott's #COVID19 order.
3. Meanwhile, leading medical experts, including the @AmerMedicalAssn, @acog, and @boardobgyn have told the courts that abortion care should not be delayed during #COVID19 & that doing so creates a greater strain on the hospital system during this global public health crisis.
4. From our CEO, Nancy Northup:
“It is vital that the Supreme Court step in and protect the health, lives & futures of Texas women. This is an extraordinarily difficult time, but this is an easy case. Texas is blatantly abusing its emergency power to obliterate #RoevWade...
“It is vital that the Supreme Court step in and protect the health, lives & futures of Texas women. This is an extraordinarily difficult time, but this is an easy case. Texas is blatantly abusing its emergency power to obliterate #RoevWade...
...This tactic of using bogus health & safety justifications to close clinics is nothing new. In fact, we have another case before the Supreme Court right now challenging a different sham law designed to shut down clinics. These thinly veiled attempts to end abortion must stop.”
