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Compassion is not a crime.
But Texas's extreme abortion ban, S.B. 8, tries to tell us that it is. According to this law, providing an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy — or simply helping someone access that care — could be grounds for anyone to sue.
The family friend who drives you to your appointment; the staff at an abortion fund that helps people without insurance pay for care; the abortion provider who traveled hundreds of miles to help someone in a provider desert. Any one of them could be sued by any person, from any state.
That means Texas is essentially recruiting ordinary citizens to enforce its law, turning people against one another at a time in someone's life when, more than anything, they need support and compassionate care.
Perhaps you've lived through a time like that — when you were scared and uncertain about what the future would hold. When you had questions about your health, your options, your well-being, and you were looking for help.
Planned Parenthood is that source of support for millions of people across this country, and it's our mission to provide care, no matter what. That's why we're suing to block this egregious ban in Texas, alongside our partners at the Center for Reproductive Rights, The Lawyerering Project, Whole Woman's Health, and the ACLU.
We are going to court in Texas to represent the majority of Americans who say: "Get your bans off our bodies!" We will not stand by and let extremists take away people's right to make the most personal decisions about their health and future.
If you're with us in this fight, please make an emergency donation now to help Planned Parenthood defend safe, legal abortion in court.
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Between this ban in Texas, the Mississippi case going before the Supreme Court this fall, and the record number of abortion restrictions enacted this year, abortion access is under threat everywhere.
But I want to get real with you: Even when abortion is harder to access — when patients have to jump through hoops, drive across state lines, take time off work, and more — people with resources will still be able to get the care they need. Losing the rights guaranteed by Roe v. Wade would disproportionately harm Black and Latino people in Southern and Midwestern states, as well as people with low incomes — communities that already face barriers to health care. We refuse to let that happen on our watch.
We need to show up like only Planned Parenthood can. We are a community of over 600 health centers, 17 million supporters, 2.4 million patients. And we come together to persevere. You are here for a reason. So am I.
The attacks may look different this time, but we are still Planned Parenthood — and we were made for this moment. We will pull through this together. I hope you'll help fund the fight today by making an urgent gift to defend safe, legal abortion.
