In Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years of prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion, medical and legal experts say the law is complicating decision-making around emergency pregnancy care.

Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies is not considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients,

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    What we get is going to depend on who we elect. We can vote for more and better Democrats…or choose to elect people who want to maximize environmental damage.

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      We can vote for more and better Democrats…

      We can vote for more. The party opposes better more stridently than it opposes Republicans.

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        “the party” is elected too. You can change it much as a bunch of Sanders supporters went and got rules changed to make it easier to launch primary challenges.