New Push Likely for Restrictions Over Abortions

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Source: KIRK JOHNSON

Both sides of the abortion debate expect a new push for restrictions as state lawmakers around the country digest the implications of the Supreme Court decision Wednesday upholding a federal ban on a type of abortion.

The ruling is expected to revive the push for more obstacles for women who want to end pregnancies. But such legislation could face headwinds in states where voters in the last election sent large numbers of Democrats — many of them abortion-rights advocates — into office for the first time.

Seventeen state houses or senates shifted position on abortion after the November elections — 15 toward more abortion rights and 2 toward greater restrictions — according to an analysis by NARAL Pro-Choice America. The group says six new governors supporting abortion rights were elected, compared with one who had voiced strong anti-abortion views.

“Something this drastic is going to energize both sides,” said Katherine Grainger, the director of the state program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, a New York-based abortion-rights legal advocacy group. The organization represented some of the doctors involved in the Supreme Court case decided Wednesday.



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[idgiehkt]

1. Well the third paragraph is encouraging.

Kind of a contrast to the headline, but that's not surprising nowadays.

[Erika]

2. This USSC is anti woman

They want to be the male theocrats who rule women's wombs. Nine judges, only one woman. Sounds like the Taliban.

[HappyWeasel]

3. or the Imams of Iran.