Iowa lawmakers have passed what could be the most restrictive abortion legislation in the country. (westernmassnews.com)
In Poland - a country with already highly restrictive abortion legislation - the government is now trying to ban abortion outright in all cases, even if the woman's life is in danger. (politics.co.uk)
Not until the later seventies, with the emergence of what was called «the religious new right,» did abortion become an urgent item on the evangelical agenda, along with issues such as school prayer and pornography On the eve of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Southern Baptist Convention, for example, was formally calling for more permissive abortion legislation. (firstthings.com)