Jessica Cisneros is in a runoff election against Henry Cuellar, the House’s only antiabortion Democrat, in Texas. Read the latest from abigailtracy:
is blunt about the stakes of her race. With the expectation that the Supreme Court will overturnthe last remaining antiabortion Democrat in Congress, could mean the difference between passing protections for women and not.
Currently, Texas has some of the harshest antiabortion laws in the country. Under SB-8, which has been in effect since last September, abortions are banned after about six weeks of pregnancy and private citizens are deputized to sue anyone who “aids or abets” such abortions. With nearly half of states poised to ban or limit abortion should the Supreme Court overturnwomen across the country could see their access similarly stripped.
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