Roe v. Wade “never under greater pressure than now”

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Although the Roe v. Wade decision has been under attack since the beginning, it has never been under greater pressure than now. This year 80 new restrictions have been placed, at state level, on how women can access abortions. In the past decade the most introduced in a single year had been 34. These restrictions, the fruit of electoral gains last autumn by Republicans, have ranged from bans on terminations at 20 weeks to onerous rules on the type of parking clinics must offer.
Surveys, meanwhile, show that young people’s views on abortion are markedly more conservative than those of their parents. Activists on both sides of the debate sense a crunch point. According to Elizabeth Nash, of the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice think-tank, everything enshrined in Roe v. Wade “is on the table right now.”
~ The London Times, August 5

jillstanek.com/2011/08/roe-v-wade-never-under-greater-pressure-than-now/

 

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This is why we need a President who will appoint reasonable Supreme Court Justices likely to overturn Roe v. Wade, and Senators likely to confirm the nominations.