Page 4 - Sb 8 News Today

Recommended and offered due to the risk of sepsis or bleeding. and because the chances of the baby surviving are slim to none. but then they said that under texas abortion law sb-8 they could not offer me the termination i needed until my life was actively in danger they said they wanted to help but couldnt under texas law. where else in medicine do we do nothing and wait and see how sick a patient becomes before acting? >> none of the women involved in the lawsuit wanted to end their pregnancie...

Number one. >> republicans arent necessarily bringing in latino voters in droves. that is not what is happening. theyre not turning out. >> one more thing. on the suppression issue i hear democrats making the argument about suppression particularly in minority areas. we are seeing massive turnout already. georgia for instance. which i was told was jim crow 2.0 we have massive turnout going on in georgia. we are going to have a huge turnout all over this country. there is no suppression. people a...

Cannot provide the standard of care right upfront. >> a houston doctor recently published similar findings on the texas heartbeat bill called sb 8. >> what we found was that sb 8 really created a chilling effect on reproductive health care. physicians were unclear if they could counsel patients, refer patients. having to really wait until something became life-threatening before they could intervene. >> reporter: state senator brian hughes wrote sb 8 and admits hes troubled by the recent study. ...

Campaign finance report back in 2020, more than 90% of your financing came from two west texas billionaires, farris wilks and tim dunn. in this election its over 80%. what do those men mean for this campaign? >> without them i couldnt have even run. theyre great men, theyre great people. >> youve been a columnist in fort worth for how long? >> oh, my gosh, i tell people since the last century. ive followed 18 sessions of the texas legislature. >> sb 8 has virtually shut down all abortions in tex...

Chinese communist drones flying over my property. >> you ran for texas state senate in 2020. >> i did. >> you lost that election. >> i did. >> we look through the campaign finance report back in 2020, more than 90% of your financing came from two west texas billionaires. >> yes. >> ferris wilks and tim dunn. what do those men mean to your campaign? >> without them i couldnt run. theyre great men. theyre great people. >> youve been a columnist in fort worth for how long? >> oh my gosh, i tell peo...

>> im shelley luther. this is what i think about chinese communist drones flying over my property. >> you ran for texas state senate. >> yes. >> in 2020. >> i did. >> you lost that election. >> i did. >> when we look through the campaign finance report back in 2020, more than 90% of your financing came from two west texas billionaires. >> yes. >> ferris wilkes and tim dunn. >> yes. >> in this election, its over 80%. what do those men mean to your campaign? >> without them i couldnt have even run...

Protect the right to travel. >> so as you noted, your bill was voted on in the house yesterday. it passed. its not going to get the 60 votes it needs to pass in the senate. so what comes next? >> well, im not sure that it wont get the 60 votes it needs in the senate yet. certainly were not going to stop trying, because these are fundamental rights. we did see in the house of representatives, we passed two bills yesterday, one, the womens health protection act that codifies statutory right to abo...

Threatening people who seek to leave. here in a crisis in texas. i think its worth remembering that since september, more than 1400 texans have left the state every month to seek abortion care in other states. and now theyre having to go farther as those states roll back the right to access to abortion. so, what were seeing here is that people who are helping them, people, employers who are reimbursing them for their travel expenses or covering their abortion care and their health insurance plan...

On connecting customers with local businesses. it was one of the first in the us to offer to pay the cost if its staff travelled out of their own state for an abortion and it has been vocal on plenty of other social issues as well. to find out why, i have been speaking to its chief diversity officer. miriam warren, a real pleasure having you on my show, thanks for your time. miriam, can we start with this, why have you as a company felt the need to be so vocal and ahead of the curve on the abort...

Private cause of action that would allow anybody sued under a texas style bounty law related to care here in connecticut to sue their persecutor right back in connecticut state court for damages, attorney fees and costs. >> so you mentioned that texas sb-8, that law that allows for private citizens to sue anyone that is either seeking or assisting someone seeking an abortion. your law allows those people who may get sued to counter sue, is that right? >> that is exactly right. and the idea of th...