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SHARE THIS POST WIDELY!!!#StephanieHasAPosse  AND Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt  Wednesday, March 2nd.

Stephanie Toti is arguing the most important abortion case in a generation Wednesday, March 2nd when the supreme court will  hear Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, a case that will determine whether the state of Texas can shut down nearly all abortion care providers in the state, placing countless women at risk of serious harm.

Share #‎StephanieHasAPosse‬ in your circles and join us in support of the lawyer arguing on behalf of all the women in this country who believe they should make their own choices about their own bodies.

In a Supreme Court brief, lawyers bravely tell their own abortion stories

“I am the daughter of a teenage mother who is the daughter of a teenage mother,” the brief quotes one woman, a public defender who had an abortion at 16. “Access to a safe, legal abortion broke the familial cycle of teenage parenthood and allowed me . . . to graduate from an elite college, work for one of the nation’s most storied civil rights organizations, and go on to graduate from the University of Michigan Law School.”

For the full article read: HERE

Amicus Briefs in Support of Whole Woman’s Health

A broad array of organizations and individuals –including leading medical experts, social scientists, legal experts, federal/state and local governmental entities and officeholders, Republican voices, military officers, religious leaders, ethicists, reproductive rights and other civil rights advocates, and many others –have filed briefs in support of Whole Woman’s Health and other Texas providers –the Petitioners in the case –in what will be the most consequential reproductive rights case in the last two decades.

For full access to all 45 briefs, read : HERE

Showdown on Abortion at the Supreme Court

Since Roe was decided in 1973, there have been countless efforts by anti-abortion activists to enact state laws that restrict abortion rights, often in the guise of protecting women’s health. But few laws have gone as far as the Texas statute, which places so heavy a burden on hundreds of thousands of women across the state — particularly those in poorer rural areas — that it has effectively destroyed their constitutional right to an abortion.

For the full article read, HERE