“Women won’t be “punished” for exercising their basic rights”, Clinton tweeted, a reference to Trump’s statement in March during an MSNBC town hall that women should face “some sort of punishment” for having an abortion. The Supreme Court made it clear that politicians can not pass laws to block access to safe, legal abortion”, said Planned Parenthood Pasadena CEO and President Sheri Bonner, “Yet today’s victory does not undo the past five years of damage and restrictions already written into law. Uh oh. A bunch more laws like Texas’ law are waiting in the wings in lower courts. And there were no clinics open anywhere between San Antonio and El Paso.
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“We’re going to have to pour over that and figure out what’s possible and try to recommend to the legislature something that would be possible even under a very unreasonable and extremists opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court”.
The laws in Texas, Mississippi and Wisconsin are among the numerous measures enacted in conservative USA states that impose a variety of restrictions on abortion.
The Supreme Court has previously ruled that while abortion is legal in the United States, states are allowed to regulate the procedure as long as those regulations don’t pose an “undue burden” on women’s ability to get an abortion.
The law would have shuttered all but a handful of clinics in the state, a change the court rules would have violated the rights of Texas citizens. The result was that wait times at some Texas abortion clinics started exceeding 20 days, Davis said, while opponents of the law also warned about women seeking out abortions in Mexico instead. She pointed specifically to Roe v. Wade in 1973 and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.
When then-Gov. Rick Perry signed the law in 2013, there were about 40 clinics throughout the state.
The Texas bishops similarly said the ruling “puts women at grave risk” and said the objective of the state regulations was to ensure women’s safety, noting: “their lives are just as precious as those of their children”.
In Pennsylvania, a Democratic state senator, Daylin Leach, said he would introduce legislation seeking to repeal a 2011 law that tightened requirements at abortion clinics.
The high court, you might say, knows what abortion foes are doing, too. While I am deeply disappointed in this decision, I am committed as ever to the protection of women’s health and the lives of the unborn.
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And in 2005, Missouri became the first state to require doctors providing abortion services to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. When the court turns to the Alabama law, with its “finding” that women need abortion to be restricted, she wants that future court to be able to cite to her opinion that they do not.
