The presidents of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America both say that they’re alarmed at attempts to decrease access to medication abortion and that they see young people as key to their ability to change policy in the long term.
The vice president, on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, tied the fight for legal abortion to Americans’ past fights for rights.
Anti-abortion activists celebrated the end of Roe last year. Ahead of its anniversary, they’re setting their sights on federal restrictions.
How the Supreme Court’s decision sparked legal chaos and altered abortion access in America.
Advocates and lawmakers have said the move is part of a broader agenda to whittle away access to the procedure, making it more difficult for low-income people to receive services.
Democratic lawmakers who won full control of state government in Michigan and Minnesota have put abortion access at the top of their agendas in 2023 legislative sessions.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, states with abortion restrictions have on average lower minimum wages, unionization levels and rates of Medicaid expansion.
Legislation in Oklahoma and remarks from the Alabama attorney general could foreshadow new efforts to punish people who induce their own abortions.
Some conservative attorneys general are taking action against abortion providers in a climate that experts describe as “more hostile” since the Supreme Court left the legality of abortion up to the states.
The measure is one of a number of pieces of anti-abortion legislation that the House GOP has promised swift votes on.