Nancy Northup Talks Texas with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
The morning after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an injunction, shuttering all but eight of Texas’s abortion clinics overnight, Nancy Northup appeared on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes to discuss the devastating impact the closures will have on the women of Texas.
Under the pretext of women’s health and safety, Texas HB2 imposes a sweeping array of excessive and medically unnecessary regulations that has led to an 80% reduction of clinics providing abortion services for, as Northup notes, “no good reason.” The closures essentially strip Texas women of the promises of Roe v. Wade through backdoor tactics.
“If you closed 80% of the polling booths in Texas, you would not say you still had the right to vote,” noted Northup during the show.