'Radicalized' anti-abortion movement poses increased threat, US warned

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "From the insurrection we saw on 6 January to the racial uprisings to the uptick in anti-abortion legislation [in the US]," she said.
43% : Because Roe allows pregnant people to have an abortion up to the point of viability, roughly understood to be 24 weeks, scholars speculate the court could substantially redefine people's right to abortion.
42% : Only one, Nicaragua, expanded legal grounds for abortion.
40% : "In the 90s we saw groups like Operation Rescue and Operation Save America, and they were quite violent," said Anu Kumar of Ipas, an international non-governmental organization that works to expand access to contraception and abortion.
40% : At the same time, the constitutional right to abortion has never been so perilously close to being removed since 1973, when the supreme court decided the landmark case Roe v Wade.
36% : "But fundamentally they are about democracy - they are anti-democratic zealots, this is not just about abortion at all."
33% : In Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona, state lawmakers have all introduced legislation to make abortion a crime punishable under murder statutes.
16% : Since Donald Trump left office, and as the US suffered among the worst Covid outbreaks in the world, Republican legislatures have worked to make 2021 the most hostile year for abortion since the procedure was legalized nationally in 1973.

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