, understandably. But your walkout has added benefits of killing bad bills about other issues—at least for now.
[The medication abortion legislation] appears to be legislation just for the sake of having legislation for ideological, political purposes—it’s beyond redundant. They’re going for gut reactions and sensationalism. It’s all about the ideology, and ultimately, a total ban on abortions. That is the end goal. And in Texas, it’s been an incremental process from before I got there—I’ve been there for over 15 years now—and basically, it’s been one thing after another since I’ve gotten to the legislature to chip away till we are where we are now, which is legislation that is basically banning abortion health care in Texas.
Maybe they just don’t care—because what they are doing is disregarding any of those kinds of options and scenarios. They’re disregarding what someone would go through that’s been raped, especially in cases of incest, which I think makes most of us cringe, the thought of that. Maybe they don’t care that we actually have children that get impregnated by incest. Children. I’m talking 10 and 11 years old. I don’t want to say it’s not well thought out—maybe they just don’t care.
Texas state Reps. Celia Israel, Julie Johnson, Donna Howard, Ina Minjarez and Gina Hinojosa in front of the Supreme Court on July 15.