EMILYs List Statement on One Year of Texans Living in a Post-Roe Reality

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September 1, 2022

EMILYs List Statement on One Year of Texans Living in a Post-Roe Reality

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A year ago today, Texas’ extreme anti-abortion ban, S.B. 8, went into effect. This near-total ban, enforcable by private citizens awarded money for filing lawsuits, has deprived nearly seven million Texans of their fundmental right to abortion. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement:

“Today marks one year that Texans’ have been living without autonomy over their bodies and futures. But the implementation of this extreme abortion ban last year was only the beginning of Republican efforts to decimate abortion in the state. With anti-choice Republicans like Ken Paxton in office and the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Texans must now navigate three significant abortion bans that make critical health care inaccessible for millions. With these bans, doctors face felony charges and jail time, bounty systems pit neighbors against each other, and with an onus on the attorney general of the state to prosecute abortion related cases, Republicans are still not done.”

“Texans deserve more—they deserve an attorney general like Rochelle Garza who will take the fight for their reproductive freedom head on. They deserve to be represented in Congress and in their state government by Democratic pro-choice champions who will work to roll back these constant attacks on Texans’ rights. EMILYs List is ready to work hand in hand with the women we have endorsed to show Republican officials what happens when you mess with our rights: you are voted out.”  

EMILYs List is proud to have endorsed the following pro-choice champions for election in Texas: Michelle Vallejo (TX-15) and Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) for Congress, Rochelle Garza for attorney general, and Maria Luisa “Lulu” Flores (HD-51) and state Reps. Mary Gonzalez (HD-75), Erin Zwiener (HD-45), Alma Allen (HD-131) for the Texas Legislature. 

 
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