Paxton Files Brief to Safeguard Texas Womens Health & Protect the Unborn

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last night filed a motion in U.S. District Court asking for dismissal of Whole Womans Healths lawsuit challenging almost all abortion laws and regulations in Texas. Whole Womans Health is attempting to circumvent the democratic process and use the courts to change dozens of laws passed by the peoples representatives in the Texas Legislature said Attorney General Paxton. Whole Womans Health is challenging more than 60 individual state laws or regulations in 19 different categories including the parental consent requirement for minors 24-hour waiting period ultrasound requirement and criminal penalties for non-compliance. Abortion clinics throughout Texas already comply with the current laws and in some cases they have been doing so for decades. For instance abortion facilities have been required to meet state licensing requirements and report certain data to the state since 1985. The U.S. Supreme Court has already upheld laws like many of those challenged. Some of the challenged laws include the states requirement that abortion providers sterilize their instruments provide patients access to their medical records the opportunity to ask questions and the right to be free from discrimination in their treatment. The financial interests of abortion doctors or their profit margins should never take precedence over womens safety and well-being said Attorney General Paxton. Its shameful that Whole Womans Health no longer wants to comply with these common-sense regulations of abortion practice many of which have previously been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. View a copy of the motion to dismiss here: https://bit.ly/2MZoqtY