Texas denied abortions to these women when their lives were in danger. Now they're suing the state.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : In 2020, the last year that abortion was fully legal in Texas, 55,000 abortions were performed in the state.
44% : "It feels like I've lived here my entire life, I've built my life around Texas, I pay taxes.
43% : She knows first-hand people whose minds have been changed about abortion because of her experience: friends and acquaintances from back home in Indiana who had previously supported abortion bans and have told her they now feel differently.
34% : And the 13 states that have so far banned abortion -- largely in the South and Midwest -- have particularly large shares of Black and Latinx residents, compared with many other parts of the country.
34% :Abortion bans are already incredibly unpopular, polling from the Public Religion Research Institute shows -- including in Texas, where 57 percent of people say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, and only 14 percent support a ban with no exceptions.
34% : Across the country, 64 percent of people support abortion legality in most or all cases and only 9 percent of people believe abortion should be banned in all cases.

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