Thread by @reappropriate

This is devastating blow against reproductive rights that will affect millions. | Texas 6-week abortion ban takes effect after Supreme Court inaction - CNN Politics apple.news/ApvqBgGHYRKWUD…

I have been pregnant twice in my life, both times very intentionally because I required fertility assistance. unlike most pregnant people - I was monitoring my fertility and pregnancy status very closely.

Even so, my pregnancies were still only confirmed at ~6 weeks.

I point this out to say that even under circumstances of actively watching my pregnancy status closely, I didn’t know I had a viable pregnancy until 6 weeks, at about the time when this ban would mean that in TX I would have no reproductive rights options.

This law not only makes it impossible to seek abortion care, but the way it is constructed — creating legal liability for any citizen who helps a pregnant person seek an abortion — has an added effect of socially isolating pregnant patients who might most need help and support.

Dystopian. Draconian. Cruel. This new law is fucking terrible.

I am genuinely terrified of what consequences this law will have for pregnant people in TX & nationwide. What will happen when we cut off literally every option to pregnant ppl: removing not only their reproductive care access but also criminalizing the very act of helping them?

And before you go around thinking “well, at least it’s only just in TX”, recognize this: if this law works, even just partially, anti-reproductive rights activists will work quickly to pass similar bills in state legislatures across the country.

So long as this law withstands legal challenge — and it has so far, given today’s turn of events — it will be replicated wherever possible. This law is coming to YOUR state legislature.