Saturday, September 04, 2021

RELATING TO HEARTBEAT

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


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.