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Mary Tuma
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As an actual Texas abortion rights reporter (and lifelong Texan) I assure you this take is severely flawed. Not only does it underestimate the popularity of abortion rights, it reinforces the centrist fallacy of acquiescing to Republicans to gain power –– reality shows "compromises" do not work.
Mary Tuma
“Texas Democrats’ failure to calibrate on abortion serves as a microcosm for what’s happened to abortion politics in the party writ large,” the journalist Zaid Jilani writes.
-tried to enforce a criminal ban when Roe fell
-sued the Biden admin to prevent enforcing a rule that ensures hospitals must offer emergency abortion
-fought a challenge from 20+ women who wanted life-saving clarity in TX's abortion ban
-his office celebrates the fall of Roe v Wade as a holiday
If this extension of the stay feels familiar, it might be because the same thing happened during the 2023 case challenging nationwide access to mifepristone. Alito extended it for two days before the court upheld the status quo and maintained access.
Here’s a refresher on the current case:
