The Texas law relies on a legal mechanism that makes it almost impossible to preemptively block
“Our decision to comply didn’t come from our values—complying with the six-week ban goes against our mission, vision, and beliefs about what people deserve in Texas,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, the president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, which has four clinics in the state. “Our decision came from being forced and advised to comply as a way to protect our physicians and staff from these frivolous lawsuits.
Hagstrom Miller and other abortion rights groups are still fighting to get the law blocked, as difficult as the language of the legislation makes it to do so. Because Whole Woman’s Health and the other plaintiffs in the suit can’t name Texas’s attorney general, for example, they’ve named every judge and court clerk in the state who could potentially be tasked with litigation related to the ban.
Getting hundreds of patients across state lines is no small task, and even with the help of Lilith Fund and the other 10 abortion funds in the state, not everyone will have the resources to travel for an abortion. During the three weeks Governor Greg Abbott’s ban on abortions during the pandemic was in effect, Whole Woman’s Health had to cancel appointments for
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