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Abortion Activist Admits Pro-Lifers are Winning: “It’s Been a Rough Decade for Supporters of Abortion”
Life News ^ | Dec, 20, 2019, | Mary Margaret Olohan

Posted on 12/22/2019 1:32:00 PM PST by Morgana

Pro-life policies within the United States are growing “like a steady drumbeat,” according to an abortion analyst.

State trend analyst for the Guttmacher Institute Elizabeth Nash spoke out about the increase in pro-life legislation across the United States in an interview with BuzzFeed News. The analyst, who works in Guttmacher’s Washington, D.C., office and has studied abortion legislation at the state level since 1999, noted that pro-abortion policies took a hit in 2019.

“It’s been a rough decade for those that support abortion rights,” Nash told Buzzfeed, adding that pro-life policies are growing “like a steady drumbeat getting louder each year.”

“In January 2011, the bills just started flying; the restrictions started moving very quickly,” Nash said. “It kick-started the wave of abortion restrictions we’ve been seeing to this day, and because the pendulum hasn’t fully swung back on the state level, it’s been hard to push back.”

Pro-abortion advocates thought for the first half of the decade that “extreme” bans on abortion would never hold up to court challenges, BuzzFeed reports, but after the election of President Donald Trump and the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, they began to see differently.

“After this large wave of restrictions moving across the country for the past several years, legislators in those states were primed to start passing abortion bans because they’d already passed every other restriction,” Nash said.

“There was not much left to do besides ban abortion … to finally take a real step toward their ultimate goal, to ban abortion, whether it’s piling on restrictions or banning it entirely.”

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The publication notes that there have been 27 bans on abortion since Kavanaugh’s confirmation—“at rates this country has never seen before.” And three states have adopted legislation in 2019 immediately banning abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned: Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee.

The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute is “a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globally.”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: abortion; prochoice; prolife

1 posted on 12/22/2019 1:32:00 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Awwww.


2 posted on 12/22/2019 1:38:19 PM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: Morgana

“It’s Been a Rough Decade for Supporters of Abortion”. To quote a line from the song, Bloody Mary in SOUTH PACIFIC; “Now ain’t that too damn bad!” I wonder how the millions of aborted children feel about it? They weren’t available for comment. The dumpster out behind the clinic had already been emptied!


3 posted on 12/22/2019 1:39:26 PM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Morgana

Good-and I hope the next decade sees abortion in the trash can of history...


4 posted on 12/22/2019 1:42:51 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys-you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

I wouldn’t mind seeing the DNC along with the abortion industry in the same trash can.


5 posted on 12/22/2019 1:49:56 PM PST by Senormechanico
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To: Morgana
Let's face it. The court erred. There is no right to kill a baby in the womb. It's ridiculous.

Time to make it right.

6 posted on 12/22/2019 1:51:29 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Morgana

Gee. Who have thunk that murdering a few million babies wouldn’t be just okey dokey with 325+ million people??!


7 posted on 12/22/2019 1:58:15 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Morgana

It’s been an even rougher decade for millions of unborn babies.


8 posted on 12/22/2019 2:01:00 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Senormechanico

From your keyboard to God’s ears...


9 posted on 12/22/2019 2:21:21 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys-you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Morgana

This is a complete head fake lie.

Planned Parenthood is actively pursuing a straregy to get itself in every public high school and college as part of ‘health services’ offered.


10 posted on 12/22/2019 3:46:50 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

And it will be a much tougher eternity...


11 posted on 12/22/2019 4:07:25 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Morgana

Knowledge is winning. Only hiding the truth and keeping people ignorant allows the ghouls to continue.
Keep spreading the truth people!


12 posted on 12/22/2019 10:46:06 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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