Republicans Back Off the Strictest Abortion Laws

Washington Post: “Immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republican lawmakers had been fast to include so-called ’cause’ bans designed to take impact once the verdict was once launched, whilst others rushed to go further restrictions that might halt the process of their states, infrequently backing proposals that didn’t come with exceptions for rape or incest.

“Now, virtually a yr later, lawmakers in some Republican-led states have began coalescing in the back of bans that permit maximum abortions to proceed — a response, some Republicans say, to the sustained political backlash to abortion restrictions that has been mounting because the landmark choice in June.

“While the 12-week bans have up to now most effective handed in two states — North Carolina and Nebraska — the proposal has additionally won traction with some nationwide antiabortion teams who say they are supportive of proscribing abortions so far as a state can, together with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which has additionally been pushing for, at minimal, nationwide limits on abortion at 15 weeks.”
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