President Trump & Extreme Republican Lawmakers are Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Texans
President Trump & Extreme Republican Lawmakers are Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Texans
President Trump and Extreme Republican Lawmakers are Making Pregnancy More Dangerous for Texans
Texans face some of the strictest abortion bans in the country. The state requires patients to navigate three reproductive healthcare bans—each causing devastating harm to women and families statewide. Even before the overturning of Roe, Texas was a well-known testing ground for anti-abortion policies that could be replicated across the country. As President Trump and anti-abortion Texas lawmakers push forward their anti-abortion, anti-democratic agenda, the deadly impact of abortion bans and the continued efforts by extremist Republicans to harm women and patients seeking lifesaving medical care cannot be ignored. Abortion bans kill women, and yet, lawmakers at the local and federal level are continuing to weaponize the government to attack reproductive freedom with an extremist agenda for political points.
Abortion bans are killing women and at least four women have died as a result of Texas’ abortion ban – and those are just the deaths we know of.
Texas’ strict abortion bans have driven medical professionals and trainees away, leaving massive gaps of care for pregnant women within the state.
As a result of abortion laws in Texas, thousands of patients are frequently forced to travel out of state to access essential abortion care.
Texas lawmakers have recently doubled down on efforts to restrict medication abortion via telehealth, which 2,800 Texans rely on every month to access abortion care.