Texas just made another positive move for our country.
Texas became the largest state Wednesday with a law that bans abortions before many women even know they are pregnant, but with a unique provision that essentially leaves enforcement to private citizens through lawsuits against doctors or anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.
The law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott puts Texas in line with more than a dozen other states that ban abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, as early as six weeks. Federal courts have mostly blocked the measures from taking effect.
But with the Supreme Court this week agreeing to take up a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, abortion rights activists worry that a ruling favorable to the state could lay the groundwork for allowing even more abortion restrictions, including so-called heartbeat bills.
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There has been so much positive news on the abortion front and the transgender sports bans. We want to thank God for these small victories, certainly coming out of COVID-19. There is much more that must be done here and the Supreme Court ruling will be a big one, but for now, that is a ways down the line.
Keep pressing your elected officials to do the right thing. You lose nothing by trying to do what is right.