West Palm Beach, FL – Today, Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-21) released the following statement after the Supreme Court failed to stop Texas’s radical six-week abortion ban, the most restrictive abortion ban since Roe V. Wade, from going into effect.

“The Texas abortion ban puts politics over the health and safety of pregnant people and inserts politicians into the deeply personal decision of if and when to become a parent,” said Rep. Frankel. “Women need the freedom to control their own reproductive destinies in order to lead full, healthy lives, and, at the end of the day, the decision to bring a child into this world should be one they make for themselves with their loved ones and doctors, not with their governor or local representative.”

Texas’s S.B. 8 law bans abortions at six weeks, before many individuals even know they are pregnant. It does not include any exceptions for cases of rape or incest. The law also allows citizens to bring civil suits against anyone who assists a patient seeking abortion, without having to show any connection to the person being sued.

In June, Rep. Frankel helped introduce the Women’s Health Protect Act, bicameral legislation that would establish patients’ right to abortion, free from medically unnecessary restrictions and bans, anywhere in the United States. This critical legislation would undo the harm done by Texas’s S.B. 8 and other abortion bans that have been introduced across the country.

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