Editorial: To stop the Texas abortion law, Congress has to act (via latimesopinion)
law that effectively disallows abortions when cardiac activity can be detected — starting at about six weeks of pregnancy, when most women don’t even know they are pregnant — and empowers citizens to enforce it by suing anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.
The identical House and Senate bills — both called the Women’s Health Protection Act — would not just guarantee the right to an abortion but would outlaw the absurd and unnecessary restrictions that states have put on women and abortion providers. The House bill has 205 cosponsors. The Senate bill haschambers. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House version will be ready for a vote when Congress returns from recess.
Meanwhile, abortion rights advocates continue their battle against the law in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals — which could take months. At the same time, legislators and governors in other states hostile to abortion rights, such as South Dakota, Florida, Arkansas and South Carolina, have signaled theirClearly there will be more attacks on Roe vs. Wade and one of them is likely to stick.
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