Women in Texas and across the nation are leading the fight to modernize our outdated abortion laws
Special shout out to the 11 pro-life women state legislators who co-authored The Heartbeat Act, Texas #SB8, protecting unborn babies with a beating heart 💓
Meet the women behind the Texas Heartbeat Act. They come from all walks of life, but they share a dedication to the people of Texas, particularly women and their unborn children:
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State rep @ShelbySlawson authored the House version of the bill. She is an attorney and a first-generation college graduate. The Texas Heartbeat Act is just one of the measures she has championed to foster and protect her local community.
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Rep. @StephanieKlick, who also authored a bill to protect TX women and their babies from chemical abortion, has almost 35 years of nursing experience and serves on the Texas Supreme Court's Children's Commission.
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.@DrBuckinghamTX is a reconstructive surgeon and a graduate of the Texas A&M Fire School. She has served as a volunteer fire fighter, and as a state senator, she has advocated for improving public education as well as protecting life.
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Dr. @DonnaCampbellTX is an ER doctor who has also shared her talents as a volunteer, performing hundreds of eye surgeries in Ghana. She serves on six Senate committees, including Health and Human Services.
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Rep. @ValoreeSwanson is a homeschool mom who adopted two of her children. Before running for office, she volunteered during every election cycle for campaigns in her area. She is also active in her church as a Bible study and Sunday school leader.
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Rep. @CandyNobleHD89 holds a degree in education and is strong proponent of quality public education. During her first year in the state house, she helped pass a law protecting Texan taxpayers from funding abortion facilities & their affiliates.
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In addition to championing pro-life laws @LaceyHullTx has supported bills to protect the rights of families, ensure Medicaid patients have access to their prescribed medications & require the reporting of missing persons to the National Missing & Unidentified Persons System.
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Sen. @joanhuffman is an attorney who served two terms as a judge in Harris County, TX and was named the "2017 Hero for Texas Children" by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for her work to protect children in the state.
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Sen. @AngelaPaxtonTX is an adopted child and the first in her family to graduate from college. She has more than 20 years of experience as a teacher and school counselor and, at the time of her election, was the first educator elected to the Texas Senate in over 2 decades.
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.@SenJaneNelson is a teacher who served two terms on the State Board of Education. She also created the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and championed legislation combating sexual assault and domestic violence and protecting endangered children.
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As a state senator, @loiskolkhorst has worked with hospitals to provide care for high-risk pregnant women and newborns. She has also supported legislation to protect abused children and reform the foster care system.
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In June last year the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs, overturning the dated Roe v. Wade decision, returning the power to save lives from abortion to the people and their elected representatives -- at the state and federal level. 2/
Already this year, pro-life states have hit the ground running to advance measures that protect unborn lives & empower moms:
ALABAMA: Adoption reform
ARKANSAS: Safe-haven baby boxes; Ensure companies who pay for abortion travel also offer 16 weeks maternity leave 3/
THREAD: During tonight's #StateOfTheUnionAddress Biden will tell Americans a tragic and frightening, but deeply misleading story about post-Dobbs America – the idea that the pro-life movement is willing to let women die.
That is a blatant lie. 1/
Let’s be very clear: every pro-life law in the country allows necessary and timely medical treatment to save the life of a pregnant woman in an emergency. 2/
In this @LozierInstitute video, Ingrid Skop, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., a board-certified OB/GYN refutes Democrats’ false claim that pro-life laws prevent doctors from intervening to save a pregnant woman’s life: 3/
THREAD: As President Trump announces the launch of his 2024 presidential campaign, we're encouraging him, and all presidential contenders, to outline their pro-life vision and policy platform in the new Dobbs era. 1/
President Trump raised the bar for what it means to be a pro-life presidential candidate and president.
As a candidate, he made written commitments to the pro-life movement and exposed Hillary Clinton’s extreme abortion views on the debate stage. 2/
As president, he kept his promises to the pro-life movement, chief among them to only nominate pro-life judges to the Supreme Court.
Thanks to President Trump keeping his word, we got Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett – and therefore, the historic Dobbs decision. 3/
Ron will continue to stand with pro-life Wisconsinites for common sense & popular pro-life measures #WISen#LifeWins22 1/
Senator Johnson went on offense, defining Mandela Barnes as an abortion extremist:
"The most extreme position here would be no limits on abortion whatsoever — allowing abortion right until the moment of birth, which is what [Barnes] supports." 2/
Together with our partner org, Women Speak Out PAC, we fought hard to elect @RonJohnsonWI.
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