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Doctors Group Responds to Supreme Court’s Movement on Clinic Shutdown Laws

Deceptive, dangerous laws like HB 2 do nothing to protect women’s health

New York, NY—Physicians for Reproductive Health hails the Supreme Court’s decision to review Texas’ burdensome and dangerous clinic shutdown law, HB 2.

From board chair Nancy Stanwood, MD, MPH:

“Reproductive clinic shutdown laws are counter to good medical practice and dangerous for women. While their proponents claim to be protecting women’s health, they are doing the exact opposite by making safe care out of reach. By these unnecessary and manipulative laws, Texas legislators disrespect Texas women and harm their health.

“As a physician caring for women for two decades, I say most emphatically to the politicians who crafted these dangerous restrictions: If you really are concerned with the care a woman receives, you would lift the restrictions that bar access to high quality, safe, legal abortion care—not shut down the compassionate and reputable health care professionals who offer it.

“Laws like HB 2 create sharp disparities in access to care that are reminiscent of the time before Roe v. Wade, when abortion access depended on a woman’s socioeconomic status, where she lived, or her ability to travel elsewhere to get the care she needed. This must stop. It is our hope that the Supreme Court will uphold the Constitution and protect a woman’s right to access safe, legal health care without these undue burdens.”

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