A serious girls's rights group is asking for a soccer match to be moved out of Texas.

On Tuesday, the Girls's March Basis demanded that the SheBelieves Cup, a global girls's soccer match, be moved out of the Lone Star State on account of its current passage of strict anti-abortion legal guidelines. The match is presently scheduled to carry its last sport day in Frisco, Texas, on February 23. The primary two matches are being held in Carson, California.

"We're asking US Soccer Girls's Nationwide Group to maneuver their #SheBelievesCup out of Texas," the group tweeted. "Texas shouldn't be getting cash from girls whereas stripping them of their rights."

The Girls's March Basis is a girls's rights advocacy group affiliated with the Girls's March, an annual worldwide protest occasion first held in January 2017 on the day after the inauguration of former President Donald Trump. Based on its official website, the group champions pro-immigration insurance policies, prison justice reform, voting rights safety, increased training for all, gun management, and extra.

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The Girls's March Basis is asking for the SheBelieves Cup to be moved from Texas in response to the state's abortion ban. Above, the U.S. group celebrates profitable the SheBelieves Cup at Exploria Stadium on February 24, 2021, in Orlando, Florida.Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photos

The SheBelieves Cup was first held in 2016, following the U.S. Girls's Soccer Group's victory within the 2015 FIFA World Cup. That includes the U.S. group and groups from three different nations, its acknowledged aim is to encourage younger girls to observe their desires each in soccer and past. This 12 months, the U.S. will face off towards groups from the Czech Republic, Iceland and New Zealand.

The inspiration's name on Tuesday got here a day after it shared an internet petition for the match to be faraway from Texas. As of Tuesday night, it had 64 signatures with a aim of 100.

"On September 1, 2021, the USA Supreme Court docket successfully allowed Roe v. Wade to be overruled," the petition web page reads. "This abortion ban is among the biggest threats to girls's rights in the USA in our lifetimes. Texas has created a brand new technique to sidestep the Structure and keep away from judicial scrutiny. Meaning it might be replicated in state after state, stopping abortion entry for thousands and thousands of ladies throughout the nation.

"The suitable to reproductive healthcare is on the basis of ladies's rights in the USA, and we'll do all we will to cease this affront to equality in Texas," it continued. "It can't be enterprise as traditional in Texas till girls are equal. We're demanding that US Soccer should pull the third SheBelieves sport out of Frisco, TX to ship a robust message to the elected officers that we'll proceed the combat for reproductive healthcare in Texas."

Newsweek reached out to U.S. Soccer for remark.