Travis County District Attorney José Garza, whose office would be tasked with prosecuting alleged abortion crimes, would not say whether he plans to try these cases.
Later in the afternoon, hundreds gathered at the federal courthouse downtown, preparing to march to the Capitol.
Tavy Edwards, 20, held a sign that said,"We are not incubators." They said their mom had a lot of complications during pregnancy and if she had not had access to abortion she could have died. Providers in Texas said they would stop offering abortions immediately while they figure out if anti-abortion laws in effect before"Right now, we need people who understand law and can analyze what the interaction between the SCOTUS ruling today and the existing — very old — laws mean for us," Jeffrey Hons, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of South Texas, said at a press conference.
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