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On the recordOctober 22, 2021
the promise of future adjudication offers cold comfort for Texas women seeking abortion care who are entitled to relief now. These women will suffer personal harm from delaying their medical care and as their pregnancies progress, they may be even unable to obtain abortion care altogether because every day the court fails to grant relief is devastating both for individual women and for our constitutional system as a whole.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York
Source
msnbc.com

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Sonia Sotomayor criticizes the Supreme Court's decision to delay action on the Texas abortion ban, emphasizing the harm to women seeking abortion care.

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