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MORE WOMEN WILL DIE IF TEXANS DON’T SPEAK UP

I’ve never been one to mince words, and I certainly won’t now that the Supreme Court seems ready to end our right to choose. This country hates women; Texas hates women; and Republicans have made it perfectly clear that they don’t care if we die.

They don’t care if we die at the hands of abusers or from poverty or from poor healthcare, and certainly not from dangerous pregnancies, childbirth, and unsafe abortions. In fact, they want women to die from unsafe abortions to build a culture of fear around abortion. They need women to die to further their agenda. We aren’t simply collateral damage—we are the target.

Abortion is healthcare and abortion saves lives. And let’s be honest, every pregnancy is a potential risk to a woman’s life. I didn’t become dangerously ill with

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