It ought not shock but should shame us that Texas’ bans on abortion following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization had to be challenged by five Texan women. The facts in Zurawski vs. State of Texas include fatal fetal abnormalities and serious health conditions exacerbated by pregnancy.
In a dissenting opinion in a 2016 Supreme Court case involving Texan abortion restrictions, Justice Breyer noted that pregnant women were 14 times more likely to die in childbirth than as a result of an abortion.
Texas’ latest move to bar access to women’s health care again rolls from the enabling course of the Supreme Court in Dobbs.
Are we civilized when one court decision allows such damage?
Anne Vaughan
Berwick
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