Texas became the symbolic center of the battle for safe and legal abortion when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, striking down the state’s abortion ban and recognizing that a woman’s right to decide whether to continue a pregnancy is a fundamental right protected by the U.S. Constitution.
Forty years later, the state is once again Ground Zero. Politicians in Texas have engaged in an unabashed campaign to chip away at women’s rights until there is nothing left of Roe, culminating in this summer’s dramatic passage of one of the most extreme and far-reaching anti-choice laws in the country.
