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Texas House Advances Bill to Severely Restrict Use of Abortion Pills

HeadlineAug 31, 2021

Texas’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives advanced a bill Monday that would cut off access to abortion pills for people who are more than seven weeks pregnant. Democratic Representative Donna Howard of Austin spoke out against the legislation.

Rep. Donna Howard: “I’m really tired of every single session, having to come here and debate one more obstacle to a woman having a right to choose her own — what happens to her own body and her own destiny.”

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