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After Texas: The Fight for Abortion Access
September 20, 2021@5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
At midnight on September 1, 2021, Senate Bill 8 went into effect in Texas, banning abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy and effectively eliminating nearly all abortion care in the state. The law will decimate access for close to 15 million Texans, hitting women in Black, Latinx, and immigrant communities hardest. What’s more, it includes a bounty-hunting scheme, offering $10,000 to anyone who successfully sues a doctor, health center worker, or other person helping someone obtain an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
And there are more battles to come. This has been the most hostile state legislative session in recent history for abortion rights, with more than a dozen states poised to enact Texas-style laws. This fall, the Supreme Court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which explicitly asks the Court to overrule Roe v. Wade and end the constitutional right to abortion.
So what can we each do about this bleak landscape? Come join our upcoming workshop After Texas: The Fight for Abortion Access on September 20, at 5 pm ET, to find out. Organized in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and moderated by Dahlia Lithwick of Slate, the event will feature experts from the front lines: Amy Hagstrom Miller of Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, part of the coalition to stop Senate Bill 8 (SB8); Jenny Ma, one of the CRR attorneys representing the providers in the upcoming Supreme Court case; and Jessica Pinckney of Access Reproductive Justice in California.
We’ll learn:
- What Texas SB8 means for other states around the country
- What SCOTUS could do—and how you can make a difference
- Proposed solutions to address this rollback, including the Women’s Health Protection Act and the Department of Justice’s new lawsuit against Texas
No subject knowledge or organizing experience necessary—everyone is welcome!
Amy Hagstrom Miller
Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder and president of Whole Woman’s Health and Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, is a fierce advocate for women’s access to safe abortion care in Texas and throughout the country.
Jenny Ma
Jenny Ma is a senior staff attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights and part of the legal team in the upcoming Supreme Court case that will determine the future of abortion care in states like Mississippi.
Jessica Pinckney
Jessica Pinckney is the executive director of ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, a California-based community organization funding abortion and advocating for reproductive justice.
Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick, a founding member of The Meteor, is a senior editor and columnist at Slate, where she hosts the podcast “Amicus,” about law and the Supreme Court. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and more.
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Photo Credit: Alyssa Schukar/Center for Reproductive Rights
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