Acceleration of abortion restrictions intensifies - Liberation News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The right to abortion is currently under the most intense, unprecedented attack that the United States has seen in decades.
45% : Though attempts by the right wing to criminalize abortion are nothing new, the recent passage of Texas SB 8 has accelerated the possibility of women's rights being stripped away nationwide.
43% : This wave of legal attacks is occurring at a completely unprecedented rate, laying the groundwork to completely restrict abortion in half of U.S. states.
42% : Overwhelming evidence suggests that the need for abortion has not declined: women are simply getting abortions elsewhere.
40% : At six weeks, most women are usually still unaware of their pregnancy, leaving them little to no time to deliberate or seek abortion.
40% : The lack of government resistance to the attacks on abortion has opened the door for many states to mold SB 8 into their own extreme laws.
37% : Communities of color are the most severely impacted, with over 69 percent of surveyed Texas women seeking abortion in another state being Black or Latina.
37% : The state is also deliberating over a bill that would allow any private citizen to report and sue another citizen who travels out of state seeking abortion.
35% : SB 1127 would completely ban abortion and criminalize pregnancy outcomes like miscarriage.
32% : According to research by the Guttmacher Institute, 26 states are "certain or likely" to put a total ban on abortion if Roe is overturned.

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