5 struck down a ban on abortion after six weeks, ruling the restriction violates a state constitutional right to privacy.īut other states have witnessed unexpected pushback on the issue. And in South Carolina, the state Supreme Court on Jan. Legal challenges are pending against several of those bans.Įlective abortions also are unavailable in Wisconsin, due to legal uncertainties faced by abortion clinics, and in North Dakota, where the lone clinic relocated to Minnesota.īans passed by lawmakers in Ohio, Indiana and Wyoming have been blocked by state courts while legal challenges are pending. Since June, near-total bans on abortion have been implemented in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. Wade's federal protections, abortion rights have become a state-by-state patchwork. “It's (Congress') responsibility to listen to the will of the people.” “We know it’s not going to happen this session, but this is the beginning,” Dannenfelser said.
That last ambition is an admitted longshot since even if it passes the newly Republican-controlled House, it would most likely fail in the Democratic-held Senate.
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Dannenfelser's scenario would still leave individual states free to impose their own, stricter measures, including a total ban. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA Pro-Life America, said she envisions an eventual “federal minimum standard” cut-off line such as 13 weeks of pregnancy after which abortion would not be permitted in any state. Some movement leaders also hope to plant seeds in Congress for a potential federal abortion restriction down the line. Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Education and Defense Fund, said the march is “a somber reminder of the millions of lives lost to abortion in the past 50 years, but also a celebration of how far we have come and where we as a movement need to focus our effort as we enter this new era in our quest to protect life.” “While others raise their voices in rage and hatred, you march with prayers, goodwill, fellowship, compassion, and devotion in defense of the most defenseless in this country,” McCarthy said. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy offered support in a statement pledging that the new Republican majority will stand with abortion-rights opponents. “I stand in place of the pro-life Black women across the globe who are suffering in silence,” she said. “This is only one step and in the next step, education becomes the biggest thing.”įrom the stage, in a move to show that the anti-abortion movement crosses political parties and racial groups, Treneé McGee, a Black Democratic state representative from Connecticut, addressed the crowd. “There’s still a lot of work to do," he said. Mike Miller, 59, who came from Boston, has attended at least 15 such marches over the years. “In some ways you don’t have that central focus anymore. “The struggle has changed,” said Marion Landry, 68, who came from North Carolina with her husband, Arthur, 91, for the sixth time. The crowd appeared smaller than in past years but bore multiple hallmarks of previous marches in the enthusiasm of the gathering, the large numbers of young people from Catholic schools around the country and plenty of banners representing different churches and religious orders. He said he would continue to use his executive authority in any way he can to preserve abortion protections while urging Congress to enshrine such rights in law. “In doing so, it put the health and lives of women across this Nation at risk." “Never before has the Court taken away a right so fundamental to Americans,” his statement said. They were easily outnumbered and surrounded by March for Lifers, but interactions were civil and police did not separate the two camps.īiden offered his counterpoint in a proclamation recognizing Sunday - Jan. In a counter-protest outside the court building, 15 or so activists in favor of abortion rights held signs of their own: “Bans off our Bodies,” “Mind your own uterus." They chanted, “Our bodies do not need advice from priests." “We want it to be unthinkable for a woman to have an abortion,” she said.
Wade would be overruled in her lifetime, but the fight doesn't stop there. Tammy Milligan came dressed as “patriot Wonder Woman" and stood out in the crowd. Banners proclaimed “Love Them Both,” meaning mother and child. “Excommunicate Pro-Choice Catholics," said another. “I am the post-Roe generation," read one sign. Indeed, with the constitutional victory behind them and lawmakers now the ones to be persuaded, marchers took a new route along the western face of the Capitol, to their usual destination between that complex and the court. “For nearly 50 years, you have marched to proclaim the fundamental dignity of women, of their children and of life itself," Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, whose office argued the case that overturned Roe v.
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