Texas Republicans say expanding a social safety net for children, preventing Texans from seeking abortions outside of the state and prosecuting abortion funders will be among their priorities if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
State Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick spoke at a press conference last summer at the Texas Capitol. Both Republicans say Texas is leading the way in the movement to end abortion., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Future lawmaking on the topic will likely not require such ingenuity. A leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion, published last week by Politico, suggests the court will reverse the landmark abortion ruling in the coming weeks, allowing states to regulate abortion as they see fit. Texasthat would make performing an abortion a felony, which would go into effect 30 days after the Supreme Court overturns Roe.
“If Roe is overturned, there’s already a criminal ban, there’s already an aiding and abetting ban, there’s already a ban on mailing medication abortion,” Sepper said. “In terms of law’s ability to change behavior, they’ve almost filled all the gaps — with the exception of criminalizing the pregnant person involved in an abortion.”
“Helping people go get abortions is going to be one of these difficult questions that’s going to arise in a post-Roe world if a legislature tries to criminalize the ability of a pregnant person to get an abortion someplace where it’s legal,” Rhodes said. “This will only power our fight to codify the right to abortion at the federal level,” Hannah Roe Beck, the Texas Democratic Party’s co-executive director, said in a news release. “It’s more important than ever that we elect leaders who are ready to put everything on the line to get this through Congress. We cannot tolerate anything less.”
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