As the Supreme Court takes up cases involving Texas' restrictive abortion law and Mississippi’s legislation that directly challenges Roe v. Wade, local governments on their own have been steadily passing laws that ban abortion.
and Mississippi’s legislation that directly challenges Roe v. Wade, local governments on their own have been steadily passing laws that ban abortion.
Andrea Miller, president of the National Institute for Reproductive Health, said the current political climate surrounding abortion is unlike anything she’s ever seen in her 20 years of work on protecting abortion rights. The ordinances have a twist that has largely protected them from court challenges. Instead of putting the burden of enforcing an abortion ban on city officials, private citizens can sue residents who have either had an abortion or helped someone have the procedure.on Monday.Texas asked the high court to block a lawsuit brought in federal court by abortion clinics in Texas against S.B. 8, which bans abortion after doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat, about six weeks into a pregnancy.
Nearly half the municipalities that have passed the bans have less than 1,000 residents, according to census data. Lubbock, Texas, stands out as the largest city to pass a municipal abortion ban with an estimated population of nearly 260,000 residents. And more could soon be to come, including one in London, Ohio.
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