Texas’s S.B. 8, the state’s near-total abortion ban, went into effect on the same day that S.B. 1, an omnibus voter suppression package, was passed by both chambers of the state legislature. The parallels between these laws extend well beyond their synchronized timelines.
Author: Izabela Tringali
Izabela Tringali is a research and program associate at the Brennan Center, where she focuses on voting rights and elections. Tringali graduated from New York University where she was awarded the Gender and Sexuality Studies Academic Achievement Award for her senior thesis on the social and legal implications that the undue burden standard poses in American abortion law. Find her on Twitter: @BelaTringali.