Surge in abortion restrictions bolsters 2020 March for Life
As pro-life advocates marched on Washington Friday (Jan. 24), state legislatures had passed 58 abortion restrictions in 2019. But measures providing the most protection for the unborn are blocked in court.
Nearly half of the restrictions enacted in 2019, 25, would ban all or at least some abortions, Guttmacher Institute reported, setting the stage for Supreme Court challenges to Roe v. Wade 47 years after its passage.
The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to reverse the ruling, but is scheduled March 4 to hear arguments in June Medical Services v. Gee, a challenge to a 2016 Louisiana law requiring abortion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of the doctor's clinic. Most recently, the court refused to hear an appeal regarding a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions. The law had already survived a lower court...