Hello,
Breaking news out of Texas: the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a ban on virtually all abortions during the coronavirus outbreak.
Despite a dissenting opinion from Judge James Dennis, who upheld the lower court’s finding that “irreparable harm would flow” from the order, Texas joins five other GOP-led states in refusing to classify abortion access as essential. An emergency federal civil rights suit filed by groups including Planned Parenthood condemned this “blatant effort to exploit a public health crisis to advance an extreme, anti-abortion agenda, without any benefit to the state in terms of preventing or resolving shortages of PPE or hospital capacity.”
Thank you for standing up for choice.
The WDTO Team
