Bette Midler has suggested that women refuse to have sex with men in the wake on Texas' controversial new abortion law.
Last week, Texas passed a law that banned abortion providers from carrying out terminations after the fetus' heartbeat had been detected - this is usually around the six-week mark. The law cites no exception for pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest, CNN reports.
Additionally, the law can be "policed" by citizens, who can sue abortion providers for $10,000 in successful cases.
The only exception to the law - also known as Senate Bill 8 - is if a "physician believes that a medical emergency exists".
The new law has faced backlash for several reasons, one of which being that many women are unaware that they are pregnant at the six-week mark.
Now, American singer and actress Bette Midler has taken to social media to slam the new law. In one tweet, the 75-year-old writes:
"I suggest that all women refuse to have sex with men until they are guaranteed the right to choose by Congress."
In another tweet, Midler writes: "Why do #antivaxxers and #antimaskers get to live the "my body, my choice" life, but pregnant women are not allowed to? How is this fair?"
She adds: "The cruelty of the #GOP is endless. We are suffering COVID-19, hurricanes, apocalyptic flooding, wildfires from hell, joblessness, homelessness, evictions, racial strife, and they pick this hideous time to pile on yet another shock to women, by taking away their right to choose."
Continuing to speak out against the law on Friday, Midler wrote: "This isn’t about guns, speech, money or war. It’s about women, their lives, their bodies and their autonomy."
President Biden has also spoken out against the new law, calling the Supreme Court's failure to not block the law an "unprecedented assault" on women's rights, per BBC News.
"The highest court of our land will allow millions in Texas in need of critical reproductive care to suffer while courts sift through procedural complexities," Biden added.
The POTUS has now launched a "whole-of-government" response to combat the new law, which Biden says "unleashes unconstitutional chaos and empowers self-anointed enforcers to have devastating impacts."