is overturned, according to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute.
The Lone Star State's Republican elected officials have garnered national attention in recent years for attacks on reproductive freedom, including Senate Bill 8. Enacted last year, that law bans abortions after about six weeks—before many people know they are pregnant—without exceptions for rape or incest and turns anti-choice vigilantes into bounty hunters.
Last month in Starr County, Texas, Lizelle Herrera was arrested and charged with murder for allegedly causing"the death of an individual by self-induced abortion," though the district attorney ultimatelyThe Guardianin a brief to the Supreme Court that"since 1973, there have been more than 1,600 documented instances of women being arrested, prosecuted, convicted, detained, or forced to undergo medical interventions that would not have occurred but for their status as pregnant...
The Austin City Council—which is made up of 10 district representatives plus the mayor—has in recent years