Texas House to consider ‘heartbeat bill’ after approval by the Senate

Article originally appeared in KXAN on March 30th, 2021

Maleeha Aziz, a community organizer for the Texas Equal Access Fund, used the pill abortion treatment twice — once as a college student who, despite being on birth control, was faced with an unplanned pregnancy and recently when an unplanned pregnancy with her husband.

Aziz and her husband have a young daughter, but she faced a difficult pregnancy and worried about potential health complications.

“I feel like all abortions are valid, regardless of the circumstances, because only the person going through it knows their circumstances the best,” Aziz told KXAN. “It’s also nobody’s business.”