"I can’t imagine the gall it took for Klusman to stand up in front of dozens of Texas women who nearly lost their lives — including some who have likely lost their ability to bear children in the future — and describe their near-death ordeals as “hard calls.” But that’s just what she did, saying that “if a woman is bleeding” or “has amniotic fluid running down her legs,” and doctors are not sure whether providing a life-saving abortion will land them in prison for life, “then the problem is not with the law. It is with the doctors.”
In fact, Klusman argued, Texas women don’t even have standing to sue the state at all unless they are actively experiencing a pregnancy in crisis, right that second. As if laws deliberately crafted to force Texans to risk their lives to carry pregnancies to term are simply accidents of fate. As if all the backers of these abortion bans can do is take a kind of “welp, them’s the breaks” stance toward the unimaginable harm they have visited on at least dozens of Texans already, and untold numbers of Texans to come."
~ Andrea Grimes
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/texas-abortion-ban-supreme-court-ken-paxton-rcna127147
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