🛑 SB 31: Politicians Still Playing Doctor.
TX lawmakers created abortion chaos—now they’re offering “clarifications” written by lawyers, not doctors.
It’s not care. It’s control.
#TXLege #SB31 #LetDoctorsDecide #ReproRights
Saying that he is voting against #SB31, Rep. Brian Harrison calls it "the height of irresponsibility to tinker with pro-life protections"
HAPPENING NOW: The Texas House is hearing #SB31 on the floor, this is the bill purporting to clarify medical exceptions to the Texas abortion ban
As of this morning #SB31 was in the House.
A bipartisan effort to help clean up the mess of Texas’ abortion bans passed the Texas Senate. Of course, it doesn’t make any exemptions for rape, incest, teen pregnancies and fatal fetal abnormalities. #txlege #texas
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Statement from repro group Free & Just reacts to changes made to an abortion bill in Texas
TODAY: The Senate State Affairs Committee voted to advance a revised version of #SB31, a bill which seeks to clarify medical exceptions for abortions in Texas. Reproductive freedom group Free & Just, which had been demanding amendments to it released the following statement.
Another point from the Zurawski plaintiffs: actual experts in the reproductive legal field like the Center for Reproductive Rights have raised the alarm over #SB31. Democratic members should be listening to their real concerns.
Happening Now: Reproductive organization Free & Just is hosting a press call with patient storytellers and former Zurawski plaintiffs about the concern of the abortion bill #SB31 (#HB44) and the red flags about reviving a nineteenth century abortion ban
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
Texas Democrats are finding themselves in a rare position opposite repro groups over #SB31. I cover that and more, plus easy to use scripts to make your voice heard on state and federal legislation this week #txlege
