Strike down the Texas law attacking a woman's right to choose!
- by: Lynn Hamilton
- recipient: U.S. Supreme Court, Texas
A Texas law is making it impossible for many Texas women to get an abortion. The law purports to advocate for women's safety, but is really just another way to make abortions less accessible. Since this law went into effect, 23 Texas abortion clinics have had to close, leaving only 19 in the state.
There are two provisions of the law that are particularly pernicious. The first provision prohibits doctors from performing abortions unless they have hospital admitting privileges within thirty miles of the clinic where the abortion occurs. The second provision requires clinics to upgrade their facilities to hospital-like standards. If these provisions are allowed to stand, the number of abortion clinics in Texas would fall to about ten. That's just ten clinics to serve the estimated 60,000 women living in Texas who choose to have an abortion each year.
Pro-choice advocates have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn these two dangerous and prejudicial provisions of the Texas law. On November 13th, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear the case. A ruling is expected in late June 2016.
Lack of access to an abortion does not make women safer; it puts them in greater jeopardy. Please sign this petition to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the two provisions of the Texas law at issue.
To the U.S. Supreme Court justices:
We the undersigned oppose the 2013 Texas law provisions that prohibit a doctor from performing an abortion unless he has hospital admitting privileges within thirty miles of where the abortion occurs, and require clinics to upgrade their facilities to hospital-like standards.
The law has already resulted in over twenty abortion clinic closures. clinics to upgrade their facilities to hospital-like standards. If these provisions are allowed to stand, the number of abortion clinics in Texas would fall to about ten. That's just ten clinics to serve the estimated 60,000 women living in Texas who choose to have an abortion each year. That doesn't make women safer; it puts them in greater jeopardy.
We urge the United States Supreme Court to strike down these provisions because they directly challenge court precedent that renders a law invalid if it "has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion."
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