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*** URGENT *** URGENT *** URGENT ***

Dear team,

Today, we and our partners filed an emergency request with the U.S.
Supreme Court to block Texas' radical six-week abortion ban (S.B. 8)
before the law takes effect on September 1.

If the Supreme Court does not intervene, abortion care after six weeks
of pregnancy will come to an abrupt stop across Texas on Wednesday.
Approximately 85% to 90% of people who obtain an abortion in Texas are
at least six weeks into pregnancy, meaning this law would prohibit
nearly all abortions in the state.

Today's filing at the Supreme Court comes after the Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals paused all proceedings in the district court while
also refusing to take any action itself to prevent this
unconstitutional ban from taking effect. In this emergency filing,
we're asking the Supreme Court to block the law, or alternatively,
allow district court proceedings to continue.

If this law is allowed to take effect, patients will have to travel
out of state-in the middle of a pandemic-to receive
constitutionally guaranteed health care. And many will not have the
means to do so.

The law would present an insurmountable barrier for many patients,
with a particularly severe impact on the communities that already bear
the brunt of Texas' pre-existing web of medically unnecessary
abortion restrictions: people of color, people with low incomes, and
young people.

I want to share a few powerful words from Amy Hagstrom Miller,
president and CEO of Whole Woman's Health and Whole Woman's Health
Alliance, one of the leading plaintiffs in this case:
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"Texans, like everyone else in this country, should be able to count
on safe abortion care in their own state. No one should be forced to
drive hundreds of miles or be made to continue a pregnancy against
their will, yet that's what will happen unless the Supreme Court steps
in. Whole Woman's Health clinics will provide the full scope of
abortion care services up until the minute this law takes effect and
we urge the Supreme Court to protect patients' health and allow us to
continue providing the essential health care Texans deserve."

You can learn more about the incredible work Whole Woman's Health
Alliance is doing to provide abortion care in Texas here.
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Together, we will do everything we can to fight this cruel and
unconscionable law.

In solidarity,

Nancy Northup
President & CEO



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