Texas women, denied medically necessary abortions, sue state to clarify exceptions to ban

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The doctors and their colleagues "fear that prosecutors and politicians will target them personally and threaten the state funding of their hospitals if they provide abortion care to pregnant people with emergent medical conditions," the lawsuit says.
38% : Paxton's office has been active in curtailing access to abortion outside of Texas, even suing the Biden administration last year over guidance that physicians must provide abortions to patients in an emergency.
38% : In Florida -- which already bans abortion after 15 weeks -- Republican state lawmakers recently proposed banning the procedure after six weeks.
37% : After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and struck down the constitutional right to abortion last summer, roughly a dozen more state abortion bans have gone into effect.

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