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ABORTION
THE STATE OF PLAY Emerging horror story for everyone of reproductive age in the USA 
Original article: Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | ||
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This week, four more states are banning abortion in most cases: Idaho, Texas and Tennessee today, and North Dakota tomorrow. As the Associated Press notes, most of these states already found ways to tightly limit abortion after Roe v. Wade, but their trigger laws will go into effect now for good measure.
All these bans mean that near-total abortion restrictions are even further-reaching now. Like:
“There’s a 10 percent chance that she will develop sepsis and herself, die,” South Carolina state Rep. Neal Collins (R) said this week of a 19-year-old turned away for an abortion, explaining why he regretted voting for a law that bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected without any exception for the health of the mother. “That weighs on me. I voted for that bill. These are affecting people.” “Now the policy stakes are real,” simultaneously warned the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board today. “I think they way overplayed their hand,” Democratic strategist Martha McKenna told me recently of Republicans jumping to ban abortion. “When you wipe out the ability of an entire state to get an abortion, you’re going to have serious implications for every Republican.”
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