| Ken Paxton's Anti-Abortion Influence Already Extended Beyond Texas. He Could Take It Further in the Senate. Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker/ProPublica. Source images: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, skaman306/Getty Images, Mike Klein/Getty Images. Early in his tenure as Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton issued a statement commemorating what he believed was a national tragedy. 'It's impossible to fill the void of more than 50 million missing human beings,' he said in 2016. He was marking the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that protected abortion rights -- and had long stood in the way of efforts to ban terminations in early pregnancy, when most abortions occur. |
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