Ever since Roe vs. Wade, conservative have worked hard to chip away at women’s rights and women’s health care. Their goal then and now is/was ban abortion. Abortion has been an obsession for the Republicans. That is the reason they paid no attention to all the allegations that Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, is actually a rapist. The Republicans were willing to overlook that in order to stack the Supreme Court with conservative anti-abortion judges. They would have approved Kavanaugh if he was a child molester or a heroin dealer. It is highly likely that abortion will not be legal in the next few years. So some Republicans are already trying to get ahead of the game and banning abortion now. –SJ Otto
From The Hill:
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on Tuesday signed into a law a measure that would automatically ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
Hutchinson’s office said the governor signed the legislation, making it the fifth state with the so-called triggered abortion ban bill, The Associated Press reported.
The bills hinge on the belief that a more conservative Supreme Court could overturn its 46-year-old decision and return authority to legalize abortion to the states.
The law bans most abortions except for medical emergencies if the country’s highest court were to overturn its previous decision. The state currently outlaws abortion 20 weeks into a pregnancy.
The legislation was passed in the Republican-controlled state legislature last week.
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota have similar “trigger” bans on the books. A similar measure has recently been introduced in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Unfortunately it will happen again!