One of the 19 women who sued Texas over its abortion ban details how she, at 20 weeks, learned her much-wanted daughter would not survive (severe fetal abnormalities). She and her husband left Texas — with the help of her physician mother — and paid in cash for everything related to her out-of-state care so Ken Paxton couldn’t use a paper trail from credit cards issued in Texas against her.
In 2023, Dani Mathisen joined 19 women with similar stories in a lawsuit against the Texas government for denial of care.
The lawsuit did not seek to overturn the bans. rather, to clarify which exceptions were allowed under the law.
The Texas Supreme Court ultimately rejected their case.
The Texas Tribune has more: www.texastribune.org/…
More than 70% of practicing OB-GYNs in Texas feel the near-total ban has negatively impacted their work, prohibiting them from providing high quality, evidence-based care for their patients, according to survey results released Tuesday.
One in five have considered leaving Texas, and 13% are planning to retire early as a result of the new restrictions. Meanwhile, a majority of OB-GYN medical residents say they’re considering the new abortion laws when deciding whether to stay in Texas after their training concludes.
Manatt Health, a health care consulting firm, surveyed all Texas-based members of the professional association American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and received responses from 450 practicing doctors and 47 medical residents.
Let me just add what the Texas lege did AFTER Roe V. Wade went away.
In summer 2022, Texas enacted SB-8 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Under this law, Texas made it a crime punishable with up to life in prison to perform an abortion.
Doctors say — and more than 110 of them signed a letter to the Lege which is all over Twitter (bite me, Elon, it will never be “X”) this weekend — that this law makes it impossible for them to do their jobs. Details in that 60 minutes-related piece show that Texas universities and state-sponsored medical schools are not training med students in how to perform the often life-saving, usually trauma-related care, that a patient undergoing a miscarriage or an incomplete medication abortion needs. pbs.twimg.com/…
This is all on the GOP in Texas, and Molly Ivins warned us all decades ago that Texas is the lab the GOP uses to try out its worst ideas in governance. Women have died, are dying, and will continue to die in Texas unless we boot out the entire GOP. And if they can pass these laws in Texas, they’ll try to make them nationwide.
Have you read Project 2025?
If you haven’t voted yet in Texas, vote.
And be prepared to do it again in ‘26, to rid our state of Abbott, Patrick, Paxton, and the odious Lege.
