Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds wants to pass a bill that would
ban abortion before most people even know they're pregnant.
Not exact matches
Update (July 22): The Associated Press reports that a federal district court has struck down North Dakota's new
abortion law, which would have
banned the procedure «as early as six weeks into pregnancy and
before some women know they are...
«Not since Congress voted to
ban the brutal partial - birth
abortion method has a more important piece of pro-life legislation come
before Congress,» said Susan Muskett of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC).
A great many people are trying to
ban forms of womens» healthcare, and perhaps you are too young to remember, but when it was illegal
before, large numbers of women turned to «back alley»
abortions, often performed in unsanitary conditions by untrained people.
I have a vague conception of how cases get to the Supreme Court, but from my understanding a heavily conservative state, like North Dakota, could pass a law
banning all
abortion, and a case challenging the validity of this law would be raised, and appeals courts would send it
before the SCOTUS, which would choose to take it and make a ruling.
Meanwhile, many of the topics now
banned (Ravitch has appended a list running from
abortion and addiction to witchcraft and yachting) did not play much of a role in educational materials even
before the rise of political correctness.
That campaign — to
ban both direct and «indirect» government support for
abortion — was conceived almost
before the ink was fully dry on the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.