A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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My friend,

The Supreme Court today issued a ruling in the Texas abortion ban case,
and while the decision is technically a partial victory for abortion
providers challenging the law, it’s also a cowardly abdication of the
Court’s role in dispensing justice and protecting Americans’ fundamental
constitutional and human rights.

The Court chose not to stop the existing ban, thereby allowing the harm
that it’s inflicting on countless Texans to continue, nor did the Court
address the legality of the Texas law’s horrific enforcement mechanism –
vigilante lawsuits, for a $10,000 bounty, against those who assist in the
provision of abortions. It just says that Texas abortion providers can
argue their case in federal court. The Court also tossed out the Justice
Department’s challenge to the law.

In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that today’s ruling “betrays
not only the citizens of Texas, but also our constitutional system of
government” and “leaves all manner of constitutional rights more
vulnerable than ever before, to the great detriment of our Constitution
and our Republic.”

Now, as we await the Court’s decision in this term’s other major
reproductive freedom case – a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade out of
Mississippi – the right to control one’s own body rests in the hands of a
far-right Supreme Court.

We can protect the fundamental right to bodily autonomy by codifying the
protections provided by Roe with the Women’s Health Protection Act, which
the House has passed but remains stalled in the Senate.

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Thanks for everything you do.

– Marge Baker, Executive Vice President

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