This would be the most devastating abortion restrictions allowed to go into effect since Roe v. Wade.

Nancy Northup

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The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.

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Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale.

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No one should be forced to delay health care because politicians have the audacity to presume to know what is best for a woman and her family.

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We talk a lot about how abortion is a medical procedure, but actually if you look at what the other side is doing, they're trying to legislate a very narrow, pretty extreme ideological worldview on the American people.

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Now, it is clear to the nation that there is an access-to-abortion crisis. We're going to win this case, and as a movement, we're going to go forward to make sure that there is equity in access.

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The Constitution protects a woman's right to make decisions over her body and her life. The district court's decision today was a resounding affirmation of this settled law.

The Supreme Court sent a loud and clear message that politicians cannot use deceptive means to shut down abortion clinics.

These underhanded tactics to cut off women's access to safe, lega... by Nancy Northup

These underhanded tactics to cut off women's access to safe, legal abortion simply cannot stand.

Not since before Roe v. Wade has a law or court decision had the potential to devastate access to reproductive health care on such a sweeping scale, once again, women across the state of Texas face the near total elimination of safe and legal options for ending a pregnancy and the denial of their constitutional rights.

Today The Supreme Court took an important step toward restoring the constitutional rights of millions of women, which Texas politicians have spent years dismantling through deceptive laws and regulatory red tape.

The Constitution protects every woman's right to make her own decisions about whether and when to end a pregnancy.

This is yet another in a relentless barrage of attacks to block women's access to constitutionally protected abortion services.