The state of Texas wants to deny women life-saving care
Today the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments about the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a law that requires doctors to provide care to stabilize patients in life-threatening circumstances. Texas is also in a legal case with the federal government over EMTALA’s guidance stating that no state can deny an abortion when the life of the woman is at risk.
Monica De La Cruz supports Texas’s aggressive and dangerous anti-abortion agenda. She celebrated when S.B. 8, the bill that forced people like Kate Cox to travel out of state for health care, took effect.
De La Cruz and House Republicans have universally fought against any attempt to protect access to critical reproductive care, including unanimously blocking consideration of the Women’s Health Protection Act — legislation that would have codified Roe and guaranteed the very same protections now under threat in today’s Supreme Court arguments.
DCCC Spokesperson Lauryn Fanguen:
“Monica De La Cruz is complicit in states putting the lives and health of women at risk. Denying women life-saving health care is unconscionable and despite Monica De La Cruz’s efforts to mislead Texans on her record, she has been an eager participant in the far-right crusade to ban abortion nationwide.”
