Welcome to Friday, September 3rd, associates, 

SCOTUS declined to block Texas’ “heartbeat law” that seeks to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. 

Texas’s law would empower individuals ― not the state government or law enforcement ― to bring a civil action against a person who performs an abortion without checking for a fetal heartbeat, or who aids or abets or reimburses the cost of an abortion. 

In a 5-4 decision, five of the Supreme Court’s conservatives rejected the appeal for a preliminary injunction because the motion raised by plaintiffs at this stage seeks to enjoin the Texas law itself, rather than a person seeking to enforce the law. 

This fall, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving Mississippi’s ban on elective abortions more than 15 weeks into pregnancy except in cases of medical emergencies and severe fetal abnormalities.

How do you feel about the Court’s decision?

Disagree With the Ban? Here's How To Help

Millions of women in Texas have lost the right to choose, and access, safe abortion facilities. If you consider this law an attack on reproductive freedoms, we compiled a list of organizations fighting for women's rights in Texas, including:

1. Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund helps low-income North, East, and West Texans seeking abortions. It also advocates for abortion access as a fundamental human right.
2. Fund Texas Choice helps women access abortion clinics by funding a bus ticket, plane ticket, or gas money. It also helps with hotel expenses.
3. The Lilith Fund, Texas' oldest abortion fund, provides direct financial assistance for Central and South Texans seeking abortions.
4. Avow: Avow — formerly NARAL Pro-Choice Texas — is an independent, Texas-based organization that organizes Texas voters to campaign for an end to anti-abortion policies in the state. It also has a political action committee (PAC) through which it works to elect pro-abortion public officials.

See the full list here.

All Work and No Playlist

In honor of Labor Day, we're compiling a playlist of songs you, our Causes Community, think best define "work" in America.

Is it some overtly labor-related song like Dolly Parton's "Nine to Five," Rihanna's "Work," Tennessee Ernie Ford's "16 Tons," Tori Amos' "The Happy Worker"?

Or maybe you're all about "Working For the Weekend" or it's just about "Money (That's What [You] Want)."

Perhaps you prefer a ditty specific to your job: "Working In The Coal Mine," "Supermodel," "Be A Clown," "Waitress Song," "Convoy."

However you prep for production, let us know. We'll release the Causes Labor Day Playlist on Monday.

All the Memes Fit to Post

And, in the End…

Make today a bank holiday:

—Josh Herman

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