To
anyone who’s been paying attention, it’s clear that the pro-life
movement is gaining enormous momentum. However, if you still have any
doubts about pro-life progress, you need only glance at Planned
Parenthood’s latest press release, responding to data just published by
the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s former research arm.
According
to the Guttmacher Institute, since the beginning of this year over 250
pro-life bills have been introduced in over 41 states. Almost 50% of
those bills would ban abortion in “some or all circumstances,” says the
organization. In fact, according to Planned Parenthood’s analysis,
legislators in seven states have proposed bills that would completely
ban abortion, while six states are considering or have passed “trigger
bans” that would ban abortion if or when Roe v. Wade is repealed.
Elizabeth
Nash, the Senior State Issues Manager at the Guttmacher Institute,
linked the glut of pro-life bills to both the conservative shift on the
Supreme Court, and the increasingly open efforts of the pro-life
movement to enact total abortion bans. “Energized by a new Supreme
Court, anti-abortion activists and politicians have kicked into high
gear their decades-long agenda to ban abortion through a series of
increasingly radical and dangerous abortion bans,” she stated.
Nash claimed, disingenuously, that...
