A group of 111 OB-GYNs in Texas released a letter to elected state leaders Sunday urging them to change abortion laws they say have prevented them from providing lifesaving care to pregnant women.

“Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain should be alive today,” the doctors wrote in their letter. “As OB-GYNs in Texas, we know firsthand how much these laws restrict our ability to provide our patients with quality, evidence-based care.”

In 2021, Texas lawmakers passed a law prohibiting doctors from performing an abortion after six weeks. The law allows members of the public to sue doctors or anyone who helps perform an abortion for $10,000.

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    The only way that’s happening is a change in leadership.

    Unfortunately, that’s going to come down to GOP members losing a wife, mother, or daughter, and even then, they hate women so much that might not be enough.

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      That won’t happen because when a GOP member or their family needs an abortion, they get sent off to a state where it’s legal for it to be done.

      Reproductive rights for me but not for thee,

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      There’s an election coming up, and there’s state and local seats up for grabs. We can’t flip Texas in a single cycle, but these goons didn’t get where they are all at once, either.