(31 May 2024)
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights:
“Most people assume that if something goes wrong seriously with their pregnancy, a serious risk to their health, their life, or a fatal fetal diagnosis, they can make the decision to terminate in consultation with their doctor. But as women across the country are finding out, exceptions to abortion bans are illusory and it is dangerous to be pregnant in any state that bans abortion.”
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ashley Brandt, Plaintiff in Texas abortion ban challenge:
“I joined this lawsuit and I shared my personal horrific experience publicly, and I shared it in court to seek clarity with the hope that we would get medical guidance from the state to prevent future Texans from experiencing similar heartache. And I feel incredibly let down.”
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lauren Miller, Plaintiff in Texas abortion ban challenge:
“Reading this was a gut punch. I read the ruling. I felt like I’d missed something, and so I immediately reread it. And I realized what was missing in those pages was us. We weren’t there. We didn’t exist. The ruling refers to the center, but not the 20 plus of us who went through just heartbreaking, tragic circumstances. There was a brief mention of Amanda, and that was it. It didn’t even give any insight of how to help. There’s just nothing.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Molly Duane, Senior staff attorney of the Center for Reproductive Rights:
“We also know that the finger pointing in Texas will continue. The attorney general, the governor of the Texas Medical Board, the legislature, and now the courts of this state will all continue to say, not our problem. Look somewhere else. It seems the Texans have nowhere to go but the voting booth. In terms of what comes next, Our legal team will review the opinions in depth and do what we can to provide educational materials to physicians and medical professionals around the state about what the opinion means.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
The Texas Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications.
Friday’s ruling from the court is the latest decision to uphold Texas’ abortion ban, which critics say does not offer enough clarity over when exceptions are allowed. The lawsuit didn’t seek to repeal Texas’ abortion ban, but instead aimed to force more clarity on when exceptions are allowed.
The court said that the current exceptions are broad enough and that doctors would be misinterpreting the law if they declined to perform an abortion when the mother’s life is in danger.
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