Texas’s ‘Life of the Mother Act’ Would Still Force Women to Carry Nonviable Pregnancies

From the Article

“The Texas legislature is reviving a century old and out of use criminal abortion ban to target, surveil, and criminalize people who have been living through the harmful ripple effect of their cruelly designed abortion bans for years. What is unique is that this bill is that it is being presented as a fix to our current abortion access crisis, but it will actually only instead cause more harm…”
Board Chair Ghazaleh Moayedi

In this increasingly unpredictable time for American politics, we can be certain of a few things: death, taxes, and anti-abortion lawmakers—especially in Texas—flaunting meaningless exceptions to their abortion bans that don’t have any real function beyond being crisis PR for Republicans. (As the Center for Reproductive Rights attorney Linda Goldstein once put it to Jezebel, exceptions only serve as “window dressing to make abortion bans look reasonable” while being “too vague and too difficult for doctors to be able to apply to save someone’s life.”)