Texas Lawmakers Won’t Let Supreme Court Ruling Stop Them From Restricting Abortion

Texas conservatives aren’t known for surrendering under pressure — even when their arguments have been proven false by the highest court in the country.

With a few months to lick their wounds following a June blow in the Supreme Court, which struck down a law that forced dozens of Texas clinics to close, anti-abortion advocates in the state are reigniting their fight to tear down women’s reproductive rights.

After watching their opponents win over the Supreme Court justices with hard facts on just how damaging years of abortion clinic closures in Texas have been for the state’s women, anti-abortion groups are attempting to do the same. They want data to back up their argument that abortion should be further restricted.

The data they are looking for — records of botched abortions, deaths linked to abortion procedures, statistics on patients’ ages, the gestational age of aborted fetuses, and other details — may be hard to find, if not illegal under privacy laws.

Why? Because there aren’t any numbers supporting the idea that abortion is dangerous in the first place....
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