Thread by @ReproRights

HAPPENING NOW: The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the Supreme Court's shadow docket and the harms of Texas' unconstitutional abortion ban #SB8.

🔴 Watch this hearing live: judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/texas…

“It’s important to understand that #SB8 was preceded by policies and legislation that reduced access to care by creating medically unnecessary obstructions to health care…#SB8 was the culmination of a decade of erosion of access to abortion health care.” @DonnaHowardTX

"This is about personal freedom and respecting that women know what is best for them, their family, and their destinies. This is about health care and trust in the doctor-patient relationship." —@DonnaHowardTX

“Both our right and access to abortion are at a perilous crossroads and with that our liberty and our equality are in crisis as well..." —Fatima Goss Graves, @nwlc CEO

"...because with every attack on our fundamental human right to reproductive health care, including abortion care, each of those values erode. And a right without access is a right denied.” —Fatima Goss Graves, @nwlc CEO

"Laws like #SB8 do not eliminate the need for abortion, they simply remind us of the indignity of not being afforded our full constitutional protections. And bearing the brunt of this law will be Black and Indigenous and Latinx individuals." —Fatima Goss Graves, @nwlc CEO

"We need Congress to protect the right to abortion and pass laws like the Women’s Health Protection Act that protect and expand abortion access." —Fatima Goss Graves, @nwlc CEO

#ActForAbortionAccess #WHPA

"The ability to determine when or whether you have children or how you parent those children is fundamentally tied not only to your personal liberty and privacy but your ability to be truly equal in this country.” —Fatima Goss Graves, @nwlc CEO

“We must ensure that there is a statutory right for providers to provide abortion and reproductive health care and patients to continue to receive that care...free from unnecessary restrictions...This body must pass the Women’s Health Protection Act and EACH Act.” @SenAlexPadilla

“For people who are especially low-income and who already lack consistent access to health care the thing that worries me the most is also our infant and maternal mortality crisis which is heightened in Texas..." —Fatima Goss Graves, @nwlc CEO

"...And when you add on that what we know about people and our ability to be able to be economically secure and to thrive, I am deeply worried about what is happening right now today..." —Fatima Goss Graves, @nwlc CEO

"...and about the copycat laws that are going to come up and likely will pass as people have been inspired by Texas. We are in both a public health emergency in this country and also a constitutional crisis.” —Fatima Goss Graves, @nwlc CEO