New Anti-Choice Laws Are Strangling Roe v. Wade
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Many U.S. women have already lost their constitutional right to abortion.
That's the premise of an April 19 column by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.
She writes that many of the 916 state measures seeking to regulate reproductive health introduced in 49 states since the start of the year infringe on Roe v. Wade. That 1973 Supreme Court decision concluded that women's right to privacy extends to their decision to end a pregnancy.
But pro-choice legal activists--wary of court battles that could go to an unfriendly High Court--are turning a blind eye, Lithwick writes.
A Louisiana lawmaker this week made it clear that anti-abortion activists are itching for a Supreme Court battle.
Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, has filed legislation for the regular lawmaking session opening April 25 that would ban all abortions in the state and subject the doctor who performs one to prosecution on charges of feticide, Ed Anderson reported in The Times-Picayune on April 20.
When asked how the bill fits with Roe, LaBruzzo was blunt: "I believe it would be in direct conflict with them...and immediately go to court. That is the goal of the individuals who asked me to put this bill in.
Among the laws that have passed so far this year is South Dakota's expanded waiting period for abortion from 24 to 72 hours and a requirement that counseling from "crisis pregnancy centers" include scientifically-flawed data on risk factors.
This week Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican serving her first term, signed into law a prohibition on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, making it the fourth state to ban abortions after that date, Steve Olafson reported for Reuters on April 20. Fallin also signed a law preventing health insurers from covering elective abortions.
Full blog at http://www.womensenews.org/story/abortion/110422/new-anti-choice-laws-are-strang...
That's the premise of an April 19 column by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.
She writes that many of the 916 state measures seeking to regulate reproductive health introduced in 49 states since the start of the year infringe on Roe v. Wade. That 1973 Supreme Court decision concluded that women's right to privacy extends to their decision to end a pregnancy.
But pro-choice legal activists--wary of court battles that could go to an unfriendly High Court--are turning a blind eye, Lithwick writes.
A Louisiana lawmaker this week made it clear that anti-abortion activists are itching for a Supreme Court battle.
Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, has filed legislation for the regular lawmaking session opening April 25 that would ban all abortions in the state and subject the doctor who performs one to prosecution on charges of feticide, Ed Anderson reported in The Times-Picayune on April 20.
When asked how the bill fits with Roe, LaBruzzo was blunt: "I believe it would be in direct conflict with them...and immediately go to court. That is the goal of the individuals who asked me to put this bill in.
Among the laws that have passed so far this year is South Dakota's expanded waiting period for abortion from 24 to 72 hours and a requirement that counseling from "crisis pregnancy centers" include scientifically-flawed data on risk factors.
This week Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican serving her first term, signed into law a prohibition on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, making it the fourth state to ban abortions after that date, Steve Olafson reported for Reuters on April 20. Fallin also signed a law preventing health insurers from covering elective abortions.
Full blog at http://www.womensenews.org/story/abortion/110422/new-anti-choice-laws-are-strang...
