Murder charge heralds a frightening new phase in fight for abortion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : The determination of anti-abortion activists and legislators is strong but, said Nelson, "I just wonder if we might see" some backlash against these laws.
49% : If abortion is solely left up to the states it will be legal in roughly half the country.
48% : Abortion has been legal in the US for 50 years.
47% : And in fact a majority of Americans do say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
42% : Some will also note that people do, at least in theory, have greater access to abortion than they did in the days before Roe v Wade.
42% : "It's interesting that the people who work so hard to make abortion illegal also claim that they don't want to punish women, that no women will be punished or prosecuted or, don't worry, they can go out of state," Leslie Jean Reagan, a professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, said.
41% : These pills can also only be used early in pregnancy, Reagan, author of When Abortion Was a Crime, noted.
36% : Second, people who have abortions will be punished even if they are not prosecuted, just as they were for the century when abortion was illegal."
34% : "Making abortion hard to get or illegal will hurt everyone," said Reagan, "but the people who will be most harmed are poor women, teens who lack support and may be most easily subject to misinformation, immigrants whose legal status may be threatened, and women of colour."
33% : A Texas law that went into effect last autumn banned abortion as soon as any cardiac activity could be detected.

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