In Texas, a temporary win for abortion rights

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Rebecca Gibron, CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, and Kentucky, told Vox in an interview that the lack of clarity in these laws is the point.
47% : And it's not the only state where reproductive health advocates are grappling with the right to abortion under the state's constitution.
47% :Abortion is presently legal in Ohio until viability despite a 2019 law banning the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy.
43% : Their argument was that although Texas doesn't have enshrined in the constitution a right to abortion, the plaintiffs and people like them -- those who need an abortion for medical reasons -- are protected under the state's constitution.
43% : A county court judge stayed that law last year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, ruling that Ohio's state constitution grants the right to abortion because it gives women equal protection and benefit under the law.
42% : Other states have used the constitution more overtly to protect the right to abortion; Ohio will hold an election on Tuesday deciding State Issue 1, which could limit the ability to amend the state constitution through further ballot measures -- including one that would enshrine the right to abortion in Ohio's constitution.
39% : The case will now go to Texas' appellate court, and then to the state Supreme Court -- which, Duane noted, is not known for its progressive stance on abortion.
37% :Texas' SB 8, which passed before Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, bans abortions past six weeks with some exceptions and deputizes citizens to enforce the law by suing people who aid or abet abortion, putting healthcare providers at legal risk.

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