NARAL Pro-Choice America Denounces Texas' Vigilante Abortion Ban Now in Effect

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : When anti-choice Republicans in Texas attempted to ban abortion in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it resulted in a 1,200% increase in Texans visiting Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado and a "more than sevenfold increase" -- 706% -- in Texans visiting Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada.
38% : While multiple states have passed laws banning abortion at this early point in pregnancy, until today, every state's attempt to ban abortion at 6 weeks has been struck down by federal courts as unconstitutional.
34% : Today, Texas' unprecedented abortion ban, Senate Bill 8, went into effect, banning abortion at approximately 6 weeks, before many people even know they are pregnant, and granting almost any person the power to sue someone for "aiding and abetting" a pregnant person seeking abortion care and being awarded $10,000 or more for their vigilantism.
29% : Earlier this year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a "trigger ban" that will automatically ban abortion across the state and criminalize doctors who provide abortion care if the anti-choice supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade (

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