{"id":252450,"date":"2021-09-03T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T13:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=252450"},"modified":"2021-09-02T23:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:44:06","slug":"nancy-pelosi-texas-law-immoral-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nancy-pelosi-texas-law-immoral-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Texas Heartbeat Act is ‘immoral’ and a ‘catastrophe’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a self-labeled Catholic, tweeted on Wednesday that the Texas Heartbeat Act<\/a> meant to save human beings from abortion once their heartbeats are detectable is a “catastrophe to women.” While the human heart begins to beat just 16-22 days after fertilization, the law does not dictate the gestational age at which abortion is restricted but states that if there is a detectable heartbeat, the abortion can not legally take place.<\/p>\n

“SCOTUS’s failure to block #SB8 has delivered catastrophe to women in Texas,” tweeted Pelosi. “This radical law is an all out effort to erase the rights and protections of\u00a0Roe v Wade<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

In a second tweet, Pelosi wrote, “Every woman, everywhere has the constitutional and moral right to basic reproductive health care. We will fight SB8 and all immoral and dangerous attacks on women’s health and freedoms with all our strength.”<\/p>\n

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Every woman, everywhere has the constitutional and moral right to basic reproductive health care. We will fight SB8 and all immoral and dangerous attacks on women\u2019s health and freedoms with all our strength.<\/p>\n

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n