From rivardinsa: How did we come to this juncture where desperate women must leave the state or even the country to get an abortion, while medical and public health professionals in Texas feel targeted by conservative politicians?
Demonstrators march through downtown San Antonio in October in protest of Senate Bill 8, Texas’ restrictive abortion law. Protesters there numbered in the thousands.The “trigger ban” on abortion in Texas kicked into action Thursday, reactivating an anti-abortion law passed in 1925, when Texas had fewer than 5 million people, most of them white.
How did we come to this juncture where desperate women must leave the state or even the country to get an abortion, while medical and public health professionals in Texas feel targeted by conservative politicians who lack any real understanding of the medical complexities at play?Success! You're on the list.
The answer, I believe, lies in a 5-4 ruling by a divided Supreme Court in 2019 in which Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that political gerrymandering was
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