Ocasio-Cortez made the allegation in a Friday tweet where she seemed to reply to Elon Musk's proposal that the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left.
"‘The extreme left is taking over’ WHERE. In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion," Ocasio-Cortez announced on Twitter.
"Can anyone name a ‘far left’ policy that is extremely implemented anywhere?" she went on. "We can’t even get our party to import cheaper RXs from Canada." The congresswoman ended her tweet with an acronym for "f--- outta here."
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While Ocasio-Cortez's tweet quickly received tens of thousands of likes and retweets, it was factually inaccurate.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, further known as Senate Bill 8, was initially signed into law in May 2021 and took effect in September. The law empowers private citizens to sue anyone suspected of helping or abetting an abortion after fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually after six weeks of pregnancy.
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The law is one of the strictest in the nation and enables individuals to sue a person who facilitates an abortion — like the doctors that provide them.
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Contrary to Ocasio-Cortez's tweet, though, women who obtain abortions after fetal cardiac activity has been detected are specifically exempted from the law.
Ocasio-Cortez's office didn't immediately return an email from Fox News Digital asking whether the congresswoman plans to correct the widely-circulated, though inaccurate, tweet.
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A federal court ignored all challenges Tuesday to a provision in the Texas abortion law.
The U.S. 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the legal challenge against the six-week abortion ban back to the state Supreme Court with orders to dismiss all challenges.
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In March, the Texas Supreme Court judged that state medical licensing clinics don't have the power to enforce the law. Weeks earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the issue, leaving abortion providers with a narrow path to victory and an uphill battle.
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Since taking effect, abortions have plunged in Texas, one of several states dominated by conservatives that have passed similar limitations on abortions.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday gave ultimate approval to a bill modeled after the controversial Texas abortion law.
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It's one of several bills passed this month by Oklahoma’s legislature to limit abortion rights and comes amid a movement by Republican-led states to severely curtail the procedure.
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The "Oklahoma Heartbeat Act," Senate Bill 1503, would ban abortions at the time when a physician can detect early cardiac activity in an embryo or fetus, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The measure provides exceptions for medical emergencies.
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