#BREAKING: We filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court to block Texas’ radical six-week abortion ban #SB8 before it takes effect on September 1. If #SCOTUS does not intervene, abortion after six weeks into pregnancy will come to an abrupt stop in Texas on Wednesday.
❗ Approximately 85% to 90% of people who obtain an abortion in Texas are at least six weeks into pregnancy, meaning this law would prohibit nearly all abortions in the state.
❗ If this law is allowed to take effect, the average one-way driving distance for Texans seeking an abortion would increase 20-fold, from 12 miles to 248 miles, according to new research from @Guttmacher.
❗ This law would fall hardest on the communities that already bear the brunt of Texas’ pre-existing web of medically unnecessary abortion restrictions: people of color, people with low incomes, and young people.
"In less than two days, Texas politicians will have effectively overturned Roe v. Wade. We have filed an emergency motion in the Supreme Court to block this law before clinics are forced to turn patients away..." —Nancy Northup, Center president and CEO
"...Patients will have to travel out of state – in the middle of a pandemic – to receive constitutionally guaranteed healthcare. And many will not have the means to do so. It’s cruel, unconscionable, and unlawful.” —Nancy Northup, Center president and CEO
“Texans, like everyone else in this country, should be able to count on safe abortion care in their own state..."—Amy Hagstrom Miller, @WholeWomans CEO
"...No one should be forced to drive hundreds of miles or be made to continue a pregnancy against their will, yet that’s what will happen unless the Supreme Court steps in..."—Amy Hagstrom Miller, @WholeWomans CEO
"...Whole Woman’s Health clinics will be open to provide abortion care up until the minute this law takes effect. We urge the Supreme Court to protect patients' health & allow us to continue providing the essential healthcare Texans deserve.”—Amy Hagstrom Miller, @WholeWomans CEO
Read our full statement on today’s filing with the U.S. Supreme Court to stop #SB8: reproductiverights.org/breaking-fate-…
Learn more about our ongoing fight with @WholeWomans and @WWHAlliance to stop this cruel law: wholewomanshealthalliance.org/texas-sb8/ #BansOffOurBodies
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