Posted on 05/18/2019 8:54:27 PM PDT by Morgana
(CNN)Abortion bans continue popping up across the United States, leaving many people wondering where their states stand. Here's what you need to know. Abortion is legal in every state
Abortion is legal under Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states. But most states have set limits in one way or another. This year, a series of strict anti-abortion bills have been passed with the intention to reshape women's access to the procedure.
The most restrictive abortion law in the country is in Alabama. The ban makes abortion illegal in virtually all cases -- including cases of rape and incest -- and doctors who perform abortions could face life in prison.
Lawmakers in Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky and Mississippi also proposed so-called heartbeat bills this year and successfully got them signed into law. Those bills generally ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy -- when many women don't yet know they're pregnant.
Are these abortion bans in effect?
Not yet.
Alabama's ban is set to take effect in November and Georgia's law on January 1.
It's unclear if those laws will go into effect because they are likely to face numerous legal challenges. The Kentucky bill was already blocked by a federal judge and the Ohio and Mississippi bans -- both set to take effect this summer -- are being challenged in court. Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood argue the laws are unconstitutional.
... but more bans are in the works
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Pray that happens.
Pray hard that this happens.
I’m so very surprised that CNN didn’t address the question of where the Supreme court ever found the authority to write its own law and dictate that magical law to the states. Maybe they’ll get to that when discussing the Supreme Court’s vast overreach in forcing gay marriage down the throats of all 50 states recently.
Even more surprising is that CNN doesn’t even consider what authority some random Federal judge has to change laws passed by any state.
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BLM?
Or not?
It is too early. The Court is still too leftist.
FUCNN
Roberts will be the sellout.
Looks like a potential ground-swelling reverse version of the left’s lawlessness, with a de facto criminalization of abortion occurring among the states just as they try to subvert federal immigration and drug laws (and illogically scream “Law of the land! Settled law! Settled science!”).
‘It is too early. The Court is still too leftist.’
maybe.
but roe is bad law and will eventually be overturned.
then the USA will become bipolar: states that have heartbeat abortion laws, and states that allow killing offspring into their twenties.
The satanist democrat demand their right to sacrifice babies on their alter of power.
Horrible people, those democrats.
JoMa
I hope the “rising wave” becomes a tsunami, and the satanic scourge of child murder is swept away once and for all.
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