How Texas became the testing ground for Post-Roe America
Texas Republicans celebrate the May 2021 signing of the so-called"heartbeat" bill that ushered in the state's virtual ban on abortion. At the table, left to right: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, state Sen. Bryan Hughes, Gov. Greg Abbott, and Rep. Shelby Slawson of Stephenville.That was the estimate she gave last August for how long abortion clinics like hers might have to shut down as Texas leaders prepared to roll out the.
“SB8 set the stage for it,” Jon Taylor, a political science professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said of the Texas law, Senate Bill 8. “It was a huge signal on the part of the court where they were going to rule with Dobbs.” “I think the fetal heartbeat law made the Dobbs decision a lot more likely,” said Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at Houston’s South Texas School of Law. “It basically illustrated what the post-Dobbs world would look like before Dobbs.”The picture that emerged was one of vast new struggles for women who are seeking the procedure.
She said some patients also have trouble obtaining methotrexate, the most common medication used to treat ectopic pregnancies, in which a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus and cannot survive. SB8 allows doctors to remove an ectopic pregnancy, but the language in SB4 is less clear.“There’s so much fear regarding some of these laws that some people are just not willing to engage in anything that might be construed as anything related to abortion care,” she said.
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