Results: Texas moves to ban most abortions due to COVID-19 outbreak

Last week, the state of Ohio ordered all abortion clinics to shutter, declaring them non-essential medical providers and claiming that by continuing to operate they are using medical resources and personal protection equipment that needs to be prioritized for hospitals dealing with COVID-19 patients. Texas has now followed suit. Abortion-rights leaders nationwide decried the tactic, saying it was an affront to women grappling with difficult decisions amid the disruptions of the pandemic. "Abortion is time-sensitive, essential health care," said Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president of the National Abortion Federation. "Women deserve better than a craven exploitation of a health care crisis in furtherance of an anti-abortion agenda." Do you feel abortion constitutes ...

Anti-abortion activists' efforts to close clinics could bring about a second health crisis. Without accessible abortion for those who are pregnant and do not want to be, there will be a rise in pregnancy complications and poor maternal and fetal health outcomes in the following months and years as patients avoid prenatal and postnatal care. There will be an uptick in incomplete abortions and other miscarriage complications as people turn to less effective ways to try to terminate a pregnancy, despite the fact that a safe, easy, and non-invasive form of medication abortion exists . Do you think anti-abortion activists are using the Covid-19 crisis to further their own agenda: to end legal abortion in the U.S.?