Obama slams antiabortion state laws in Planned Parenthood speech
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/26/obama-slams-anti-abortion-state-laws-in-planned-parenthood-speech/
“When you read about some of these laws, you want to check the calendar, you want to make sure you’re still living in 2013,” Obama told the crowd.
In the past two months, four states — Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas and North Dakota — have adopted some of the most stringent restrictions on abortion in the nation, while Virginia has also imposed new rules on abortion providers by making them comply with hospital-style building standards. Lawmakers in 42 states have introduced legislation this year that would impose some kind of limits on access to abortions.
Obama — the first sitting president to address the group in its nearly 100-year history – took aim at North Dakota’s law, which bans abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, at around six weeks.
“A woman may not even know that she’s pregnant at six weeks,” he said. As long as Planned Parenthood and other groups have to fight to defend women’s reproductive rights, he added later, “you’ve also got a president who will be right there with you, fighting every step of the way.”
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