Thread by @LegallyLove

SB 1457, the invasive and insidious anti-abortion bill was amended and passed the House and will be up for a vote on the Senate floor, likely on Monday. If 1457 is not stopped now, it goes to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.

SB 1457 makes sound science and medical treatments illegal. Doctors and patients become felons. It bans abortion based on fetal anomaly diagnosis and disability status. In reality, there are so many toxic layers to this bill that it’s still unclear as to everything it undermines.

A few of the hits:

* Makes IVF illegal (page 1, line 6)
*Criminalizes doctors and patients, with up to 5 years mandatory prison sentence
*Bans abortion based on disability status and fetal anomaly diagnosis (page 18)

*Allows partners and grandparents to sue patients and doctors to interfere with abortion care (begins on page 16)
*Criminalizes patients and doctors with a range of felonies (class 3, class 6) (begins on page 1, line 22).

People are not criminals for accessing health care!

NOW is the time to kill this bill.

NOW is the time to remember those stories of miscarriages and how medical care addressing those patients is swept up in this bill.

NOW is the time to remember the abortion is a Constitutionally protected right that underpins many other rights we all enjoy, like marriage equality.

NOW is the time to fight like hell!

Call your state senator NOW! Tell them to VOTE NO on SB 1457!

Call Senate President Karen Fann NOW: 602-926-5874 tell her that SB 1457 should not be put up for a vote!

Thank you for being in this fight with us!