Travis County District Attorney José Garza said he won’t use his office’s limited resources to prosecute people who seek, provide or support abortions. | sangitamenon
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the Pan American Neighborhood Park for A Rally for Reproductive Freedom on Sunday.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Friday threw out the constitutional right to an abortion. In the coming weeks, athat bans all abortions except in cases were the pregnant person could die or face “substantial impairment of a major bodily function” is expected to go into effect in Texas. No exceptions were made for the case of rape.
Garza was one of more than 80 elected prosecutors across the country — including four others from Texas — who issuedsaying they would not use their offices to criminalize reproductive health decisions. The statement said enforcing abortion bans would, among other things, erode trust in the legal system, take resources away from enforcing serious crimes and retraumatize victims of sexual violence.
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