Texas’ highly restrictive anti-abortion law went into effect last week, and abortion rights advocates say the threat to women’s reproductive freedom across the US has already begun — and extends far beyond abortion.
Then, they anticipate that the momentum from S.B. 8 could help the anti-abortion movement achieve its broader ambitions.
Having citizens rather than the government enforce the rule “was the linchpin for the Supreme Court allowing the law to go into effect,” said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst with the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that researches reproductive rights.Arons said the enforcement mechanism is concerning, and not just for reproductive freedoms.
“It is a shame that in the most resourced country in the world that people are having to travel hundreds of miles for basic reproductive health care,” she said. Many of the patients are coming simply to getMissouri, where McNicholas is, could be the next state to ban most abortions: A federalis scheduled this month to review its ban on abortions at eight weeks’ gestation with no exceptions for rape or incest.
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