From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

On September 1st, in the state of Texas, a law went into effect, banning most abortions after

six weeks of pregnancy, when an ultrasound can pick up the sound of a fetal heartbeat.

The bill that brought about this law, the Texas Heartbeat Act, was co-authored by 11 pro-life women's

state legislators, debated by all 181 members of the Texas legislature, and signed into law

by the Texas governor.

Polls actually showed that 46%, almost half of female voters in Texas, were behind this bill.

There is every indication here that the Texas legislature acted on the will of the people to protect unborn children and mothers.

But predictably, the left is not taking it well.

Companies like GoDaddy, Uber, Lyft, Bumble, and Match are promising to cover legal funds

or creating relief funds for employees who want an abortion.

And here's White House Senior Advisor

Sudrick Richmond. We're going to do everything we can to try to remedy that situation for people

in Texas. It is just a cruel and destructive law on the rights of women. And MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

Republican senators like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski said they were quite sure.

They were convinced that all these Trump nominees to the Supreme Court certainly recognized Roe versus Wade as settled precedent.

They would never mess with that. Let's not be melodramatic.

Legal abortion is safe in this country in a permanent way.

Well, here we are.

If you ever wondered where you'd be and what you'd be doing and what it would be like for you

when Roe versus Wade came to an end in America and abortion started to be banned in America.

Well, wherever you were today and whatever you were doing today and whatever it was like for you today, that's your answer.

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