Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The New YorkerLena Dunham is not happy.
The Girls star took to Twitter today to voice her concerns and frustrations with Texas, after the state's court upheld provisions with their abortion laws that ultimately puts about half of their remaining abortion clinics at risk of permanently shutting their doors.
"What's happening to women and the right to choose in Texas is TERRIFYING. Let's educate ourselves so we can fight," Dunham wrote with a link to The New York Times article that explains the legal matter.
"These politicians think they can trick us, via loopholes & false concern, into giving up our RIGHTS. They underestimate women & their allies," she continued. "The broads I've met in Texas, well, let's just say I wouldn't wanna fight 'em. Love to those doing battle for us all."
According to the article, abortion providers and women's rights groups vowed a quick appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
The judges ruled that Texas can require all abortion clinics in the state to meet the same building, equipment and staffing standards that hospital-style surgical centers must meet, which could force numerous clinics to close, abortion rights advocates said.
Texas lawmakers explain that these provisions are meant to improve safety, but medical associations say these restrictions don't improve patient safety, and abortion activists feel that the provisions are actually meant to restrict access to abortions.
The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, called the Fifth Circuit's decision upholding the law a "victory for life and women's health."
"H.B. 2 both protects the unborn and ensures Texas women are not subjected to unsafe and unhealthy conditions," Mr. Paxton said in a statement. "Today's decision by the Fifth Circuit validates that the people of Texas have authority to establish safe, common-sense standards of care necessary to ensure the health of women."