Access to healthcare should never be determined by the courts.
John,
This week, we watched as the Texas Supreme Court denied Kate Cox, a mother of two facing health-threatening pregnancy complications, the right to terminate her pregnancy. The fetus she was carrying tested positive for a fatal condition that posed serious risks to Ms. Cox’s future fertility, and Cox was already experiencing alarming health complications requiring multiple trips to the emergency room. Yet a group of partisan judges with no medical training ruled that Ms. Cox did not meet the threshold for a medical emergency exemption to receive an abortion.
Access to healthcare should never be determined by the courts. Every person has the right to make decisions about their own body, their own health, and their own future.
These abortion bans not only deny bodily autonomy, but they put lives at risk. Republicans continue to uphold their extreme abortion policies, including opposing exceptions even for rape or life-threatening conditions, which not even Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush believed. Women who can afford it will sometimes have to travel through several states and pay thousands of dollars to terminate a pregnancy or risk imprisonment.
