We have another abortion update out of Texas, team.

The extremist, right-wing Texas 5th Circuit Court has ruled against emergency abortion care.

Here’s the deal: Under federal law, hospitals must perform abortions to save the life of a mother. We are writing because that is no longer the case in Texas.

According to the Washington Post, “A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that Texas hospitals and doctors are not obligated to perform abortions under a long-standing national emergency-care law.”

That means that women in Texas will no longer have access to life-saving abortion care – and many women will die as a result of this ruling.

Let’s be clear: This has nothing to do with saving babies. It’s about controlling women.

We are fed up with this story: Men in positions of power make decisions they are not qualified to make; putting women’s lives and bodies in danger. We are fighting back, and one way to do that is by ensuring that more unapologetically pro-choice women are in the rooms where these decisions are being made. Will you help us by rushing $20.24 today?

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Let’s change the way this story ends,

Colleen Davis
Endorsements Manager
Her Bold Move

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Kate Cox, a Texas woman and mother of two children, was around 20 weeks pregnant when she learned the devastating news that her baby had Trisomy 18, a rare and likely fatal diagnosis. In order to protect her health and future fertility, she needed an abortion. According to Reuters, she bravely filed a lawsuit seeking a “temporary restraining order preventing Texas from enforcing its near-total ban on abortion in her case.”

Here’s what happened next:

A district judge (a woman) granted the request, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appealed that judge’s decision on the grounds that she “fell short” of proving she qualified for an exception. He then went on to warn that “Texas courts were not intended to be ‘revolving doors of permission slips to obtain abortions." (We couldn’t agree more.)

In the end, Kate left the state of Texas to have an emergency abortion as her health worsened.

And this wasn’t the only horrifying abortion story from late 2023:

A Black woman in Ohio is facing a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine after being denied care for her miscarriage at a hospital and suffering through the miscarriage at home.

According to AP News, a doctor informed her that her “water had broken prematurely and the fetus she was carrying would not survive. He advised heading to the hospital to have her labor induced so she could have what amounted to an abortion to deliver the nonviable fetus. Otherwise, she would face ‘significant risk’ of death.”

After multiple trips to the hospital, where she was unable to obtain care due to doctors “deliberating over the legalities,” Watts miscarried into a toilet at her home and is now being charged with abuse of a corpse.

This is the nasty reality of living in a post-Roe world. Doctors are refusing to provide care in order to avoid criminal charges, to the detriment of our lives. The worst part? These dangerous laws that doctors are trying to interpret were mostly written by men.

This is about controlling women. This is about men being in positions of power making decisions they are not qualified to make. But we have an opportunity to change that this year – by electing more fiercely pro-choice women. Will you help us by rushing $20.24 today?

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In solidarity,

Colleen Davis
Endorsements Manager
Her Bold Move


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