Had they had their way and SB5 had passed, "standards" (read: hurdles) for an abortion clinic would have been set so high that all but 5 of them would have to shut down. It also would have been illegal for a woman to have an abortion after 5 months, because of the inaccurate ethical dilemma of a baby that age being able to feel "pain and happiness." It's actually 24 weeks.
And let's just extrapolate what raising these "standards" would entail.
It would mean that a girl who needs an abortion who lives anywhere across the incredibly vast state of Texas where it's highly likely she would have no access to a clinic would somehow have to find money to travel to one of the five abortion clinics not shut down, see a doctor twice, get an ultrasound and have it shown & described to her before she could get the procedure she needs. Is the GOP truly acting on behalf of women in Texas, or torturing them until they align to their draconian moral code?
