CONGRATS Y'ALL!!!!!

And finally, my statement in my role as Board Chair for @prhdocs.bsky.social

prh.org/press-releas...

You can find your reps using this link.
They are all in Austin now, so call their Austin office.

wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home

We NEED your help.
Please help me, help us, keep working to save the lives of Texans.
Call your representatives and ask them to listen to the Texas abortion experts.
Tell them to either take the advice of the experts
and fix the bill or oppose SB31/ HB 44.

Abortion doctors in Texas oppose SB31/HB44
Abortion patients in Texas oppose the bill
Abortion funds in Texas oppose the bill
Abortion rights orgs in Texas oppose the bill
Abortion lawyers in Texas oppose the bill
So why are TX Dems advancing the bill?

Why won’t SB 31/ HB 44 help?
Because the language changes are not meaningful or substantive.
Because the chilling effect of the bans still exists.
Because there are only a few skilled abortion providers in the state.
Because an abortion ban with a cute bow is still an abortion ban.

In addition to this game of secret password,
The bill REQUIRES new, state-mandated education for OBGYNs ONLY.
No other docs.
The lege is trying to say WE are at fault for people dying.
Not abortion bans.
Rather than passing meaningful laws,
they want me to take a State Propaganda course.

Soooo...life-threatening then?
Not only is this NOT a clear definition for “medical emergency,” but also…
Is it even a definition?
Is it a typo?
Were we even supposed to be directed here?
I can’t save a single, additional life with this language.
We are playing word games with people’s lives.

“in the exercise of reasonable medical judgment, the pregnant [person]...has a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places the [person] at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function…”

Doctors across the state have been confused
as to what constitutes a “medical emergency”
The bill attempts to define “medical emergency,”
saying it’s defined by Section 170A.002(b)(2)
What’s that section say?
I’ll tell you, but when you read it,
you’ll be more confused.

Why is the bill a word game?
Dems are saying this bill is a fix because
it strikes out “life threatening” from the ban.
But literally the next line in the ban still says,
“places the female at risk of death”
You don’t need to be an English major
to know that sentence still has the same meaning.

But SB31/ HB44 resurrects that dead ban.
It paves the way to criminalize abortion funds,
abortion support networks,
doctors that provide abortion information (like me),
and even people getting abortions and their families.
This bill will not help me save a single life,
but endangers many.

SB31/ HB 44 is another abortion ban,
wrapped up in a word game.
TxDems think it adds clarifying language
that will help me/us save lives,
But it doesn’t.
Instead, it revives a 100+ year old abortion ban
that I sued Ken Paxton over in 2022.
I sued to make sure that ban was dead and I won.

#TxDems are saying this bill is a “fix”
to our harmful abortion bans.
I really wish that were true.
I am the person that provides that life saving care.
The reality is, this bill will not help me save a single life,
But, it will endanger thousands more lives in the process.

Thanks to @prhdocs.bsky.social / @dr-moayedi.bsky.social and @nwlc.org for explaining how this is all just a ruse to try to get people to accept oppression
newrepublic.com/article/1918...

It was "unintentional"
Actually, the consequences were fully intended.

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