an erasure of Texas Senate Bill 8: relating to abortion, including abortions after detection of an unborn child's heartbeat; authorizing a private civil right of action
by Rebekah Wolman
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| An empty room used to perform procedures at Whole Woman’s Health of Austin on Sept. 1, 2021, the day anti-abortion Senate Bill 8, the so-called Heartbeat Bill, became law. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune. |
private
life
means
activity
the human female reproductive
condition
is carrying
choice about
surviving
consistent with
a manner that is
at least as
private
as
an action
or mistake
or
reliance on consent
not construed
as
rape, sexual assault, incest, or any other act
against
women
women
the rights of
women
a woman
that woman
a woman
the potential danger to
the possibility of risk
to the
child without regard to
the child
is not
known
whether
or
Rebekah Wolman is a retired educator living in San Francisco and rededicating her life to poetry.