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Texas Lawmakers Push for New Exceptions to State’s Strict Abortion Ban After the Deaths of Two Women (www.propublica.org)

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The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs.”

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The women dying are actually ones trying to have children. Collateral damage in the war against abortion, some might say. But intolerable if your goal is to get people to have more children (which is really at the heart of the anti-abortion right).