“Lawmakers need to listen to all of those grass-roots activists out in the streets yesterday, because they will most certainly be voting come November,” said Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women.
Reproductive choice groups say Tuesday’s nationwide protests were just the beginning as they set their sights on challenging the recent wave of near-total abortion bans both in court and at the polls.
Advocacy groups are looking to build off this wave of activism as they prepare to fight against a number of recently passed laws in conservative states like Georgia and Alabama that restrict a woman’s access to abortion services. The American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood and other groups have already filed lawsuits in Kentucky and Ohio, where Republican legislatures passed restrictive anti-abortion measures. The Kentucky bill prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, while the Ohio law bans the procedure after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Even President Donald Trump has implied that Alabama went too far with its abortion law. In a series of tweets after the law’s passage, the president wrote that his view “is the same position taken by Ronald Reagan” and said that abortion should be legal following rape or incest. While Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is not up for re-election until 2022, all 56 state Senate seats will be up for election in 2020. Right now, Republicans hold a 35-21 majority in the chamber.
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