Thread by @Hegemommy

Do you feel like there is SO MUCH ABORTION NEWS happening today? That’s because there is.

First is the fight over a 6 week abortion ban in Texas. That’s the one that creates “abortion enforcers” and offers a bounty on patients, providers, and others who help.

Today advocates filed an emergency petition asking the Supreme Court to step in. Later today Justice Alito told the defendants in that case they could respond to that request by 5 pm tomorrow.

That’s about 8 hours before the ban is set to take effect.

You’d think Texas lawmakers would take a breather trying to ban abortion but you’d be wrong! Even with that 6 week ban looming they are trying to pass Yet Another Abortion Ban. This time on medication abortion.

That is just ONE DAYS WORTH of abortion rights news from one state.

It’s not going to be slowing down. Anti-choice advocates are all about accelerating incrementalism. Because this Texas ban is real bad.

But so is the other direct threat to Roe from MS

That case, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health is also a direct challenge to Roe and Casey and would also let states ban abortion before a fetus is viable.

And guess what? There’s ANOTHER petition waiting in the wings too. From Arkansas.

So the question we’re faced with is not IF the Supreme Court is going to overturn Roe v Wade but WHEN and if they will do so in public later next term or in the shadows, as soon as this week