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Texas may be far from Idaho, but we share too much in common when it comes to women’s bodily autonomy.
If you’ve not heard of her, Kate Cox is a 31-year-old mother of two who lives in Dallas, Texas. At her 20-week prenatal appointment, she learned the agonizing pain she was experiencing was from a chromosomal anomaly called trisomy 18, a fatal condition to the fetus, and a risk to the mother’s life as well.
Last Thursday, a judge ruled that Mrs. Cox could receive an emergency abortion. Attorney General Ken Paxton immediately sent a threatening letter to the doctors, and the hospital, followed by an appeal to the GOP-controlled Texas Supreme Court, which blocked Kate from receiving the treatment she desperately needed.
With the clock ticking, Kate was left with no other choice but to flee the state to get the MEDICAL care she needed.
"Kate desperately wanted to be able to get care where she lives and recover at home surrounded by family. While Kate had the ability to leave the state, most people do not, and a situation like this could be a death sentence.” – Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive Rights
It’s been 50 years since a woman has had to ask a judge for permission to have an abortion. It has now happened twice in the span of a week.
While Texas judges were playing football with Kate Cox’s life and future, another woman in Kentucky filed a lawsuit against the state for the right to terminate her own eight-week pregnancy.
She is suing to have Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban declared unconstitutional under the Kentucky state Constitution.
What’s happening to these women could just as easily happen here in Idaho, where we have one of the harshest abortion bans in the nation. That’s why I’m running for Congress.
I am an unapologetic supporter of reproductive freedom. Can you pitch in to help me flip this seat next year and stop Republicans from pursuing a national abortion ban? |
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The situation is already dire for women in Idaho, where some rural hospitals have closed down their maternity wards out of fear of running afoul of our strict abortion ban.
And now we’ve just learned that the US Supreme Court will hear the mifepristone case, and may be set to abolish access to the safe, effective medication used for terminating pregnancies AND treating miscarriages and other medical conditions.
If this happens, it will effectively become a nationwide ban on safe, medical abortions, forcing women to wait longer, travel further, and have riskier procedures to get abortion care – if they can get it at all.
Our choice next year is to keep letting Republicans put women’s lives in danger, or to elect people like me who will fight for our right to control our own bodies.
It’s not said often enough: pregnancy itself is a life-threatening condition.
The ONLY people who should be allowed to make decisions about becoming pregnant or remaining pregnant are the people who get pregnant.
What Republicans did to Kate Cox is proof that their “exceptions” for life of the mother are just bull. It was never about saving lives. It was always about controlling women.
Thank you,
David Roth |
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