Zurawski plaintiff Taylor Edwards says she is confused after talking with Democratic House members last week over #HB44. Says they are not listening to the people who will be impacted by these laws.

Physicians and organizations that are on the frontlines of reproductive care in the state are outlining why the abortion exception bills #HB44 (and #SB31) need an amendment to ensure a centuries-old abortion ban is not revived

Texas Equal Access Fund says that if #HB44 or #SB31 are passed without amendments, abortion fund groups would be forced to pause their funding efforts immediately, which would have devastating consequences for many of their patients, often from marginalized communities

Sarah Corning, an attorney from @aclutx.bsky.social notes that #HB44 and #SB31 do risk making the pre-Roe abortion ban from 1847 (which was re-codified in 1925) in effect again.

HAPPENING NOW: @aclutx.bsky.social is holding a media advisory with abortion rights advocates and physicians about #HB44 (also known as #SB31) -- and what they are calling the "dangerous medical exception deception bills"

Bad Place alert about a letter from Zurawski plaintiffs about calls for an amendment to HB44/SB31

Plaintiffs and family members in the Zurawski v. Texas case are out now with a letter asking lawmakers to amend #HB44 and #SB31, which they say could trigger a centuries-old abortion ban

Women of Texas once again had to show up in Austin to fight against another bill about abortion. This one is called "The Life of the Mother", but women who have seen the horrors SB8 has forced upon pregnancy showed up to testify against #HB44

Listen to them. #txlege

One of the big takeaways from the public testimony about #HB44, the purported medical abortion exception bill, from those that oppose it is that it's unacceptable in its *current* form. They are asking for an amendment addressing the pre-Roe 1925 abortion ban.

Rep. Simmons is asking those who oppose #HB44 for their genuine responses to the 1925 questions that were posed earlier. They note that top litigators like Center for Reproductive Rights are who they trust here because they were the stewards for their case.

Another Zurawski plaintiff Kaitlyn Kash is testifying against #HB44, says that the bill is not a solution, but a "political compromise"

We are now hearing from a Zurawski plaintiff, Taylor Edwards, who is opposed to #HB44. Says the bill does not clearly protect patients and families and calls the bills "ignorant at best and deliberately cruel at worst."

I wouldn’t trust far-right Christian nationalists like Bryan Hughes, Bob Hall or Texas Right to Life with my grocery list, no way in hell would I trust them to collaborate on abortion legislation. They will not help women.
#txlege #HB44 #SB31