Abortions Resume in Texas with Other Elective Surgeries

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
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After a lengthy legal battle over the fact that abortions were included in Texas's ban on elective surgical procedures, they are once again available in Texas. The state is starting to make elective surgeries available to the public once again, which has the side-effect of opening abortion clinics. The clinics continue to push the narrative that they, and the women they serve, were treated unfairly by the temporary ban. The fact that they still get to open alongside other non-essential surgical procedures undercuts this narrative.

Planned Parenthood Texas Votes executive director Dyana Limon-Mercado told the Texas Tribune that, “[The] past month has been an unthinkable nightmare for Texans who have been forced to travel out of state just to access essential health care, if they’re able to access care at all.”

Citizens in many states haven't been able to access services they might want during COVID-19 shutdowns. Planned Parenthood's repeated claims that abortion should be an exception to the rule and apparent endorsement of interstate travel for the sake of abortion is selfish and disturbing. Abortion advocates are truly taking advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak to make political points when governors who place these temporary bans are only trying to keep people safe.

As much as pro-life advocates want abortion to end, pro-life governors will end these temporary bans as they open up their states for commerce once again. Governors are not legislating from their offices like the Supreme Court did in its Roe v. Wade ruling, and a true challenge to Roe v. Wade will come through the courts.

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