Texas is restricting the laws on abortion. Now, it’s really difficult for women and teens to deal with an unwanted pregnancy.

  On September first, 2021, in texas, the court voted to restrict access to abortion. The result is that it is impossible to resort to the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. The conservative judges of the supreme court think that it’s cruel to kill a baby even if it’s just a fetus and if the pregnancy is unwanted or the result of a rape.

  Furthermore, citizens are asked to denounce any woman who wants to undergo an abortion. After, the government gives 10 thousand dollars to anyone who provided the information. It is as if we are back in the far west with bounty hunters. Although, they don’t hunt criminals; they hunt pregnant women.

  To access abortion women need to have two visits. One for an ultrasound and a second for the procedure. Certain doctors will reject the abortion firsthand because they can hear a heartbeat, making it impossible to abort.

  Contrary to us, minors over fourteen years old need the permission of their parents or the judge. There are other options, teens can access an abortion if they are legally emancipated or if there is a medical emergency. For the ones that are not able to abort in Texas, there is some site that can help them to find another way in another state to abort. Like planned parenthood.org.

  Women are really angry about the new laws. They think that the court can’t take decisions on their body. There is also a step back in history. We’re heading in the wrong direction,” said Katy Allen, a 67-year-old university researcher from Rochester, New York. “It’s the tyranny of the minority.”

   Already in the late 1800s, women healers in Europe and the United States were doing abortions and trained other women to do so. Women were already supporting each other. In 1803, Britain has forbidden abortion. The United States followed Britain in 1880, but they accepted abortion if the women’s life was in danger because of that. In the ’60s the women took inspiration from anti-war movements and began to fight even harder to make abortion legal. In the ’70s abortion in the United States became legal.