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Posted on 11/08/2007 3:06:38 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-abortion law firm has released a new report saying thirty states are likely to ban most or all abortions if the Supreme Court reverses the Roe v. Wade decision. The firm also conducted a poll finding many Americans are unaware of pro-life efforts to get abortion bans in place for when the high court overturns the case.
The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights says Roe is under attack like never before with pro-life activists using new strategies at both the state and federal level.
It's most recent version of its report "What if Roe Fell?" finds that pro-life groups are advocating both immediate bans on abortion as well as trigger laws that would make abortions illegal if Roe is reversed.
"Across the country, a dangerous, but largely undetected movement is laying the foundation for a post-Roe world in which abortion would once again be a crime," Nancy Northup, president of the Center, said in a statement LifeNews.com received.
The center says seventeen states have introduced 38 abortion bans or trigger laws in the last three years.
Four states, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota have introduced abortion bans and South Dakota's legislature was the only one to approve it (though voters there narrowly rejected the measure afterwards).
The pro-abortion law firm also reported that more than two dozen states would likely ban abortion or have trigger laws immediately going into effect after a potential Supreme Court decision overturning the major abortion case.
It lists 21 states as most likely to ban abortions in that instance: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
It classifies another 9 states as somewhat likely: Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, the abortion advocacy group hired Lake Research Partners to do a survey about Roe issues.
According to the polling data, 63 percent of Americans believe that Roe v. Wade is increasingly vulnerable under the current Supreme Court.
Another 60 percent are largely unaware of legislative efforts underway at the state level to ban abortion or put trigger laws in place. And about 58 percent of those polled are not aware of the current laws on abortion in their home state.
The survey reached 1,000 registered voters nationwide and it had a 2.7 percent margin of error.
You’ll probably see AK, TN, WY come on that list. But not WV because it is normally a KKK Byrdbrain state. FL is about lefty as it can get in most places because of the eastern liberals who have moved down there for the sun. They hate the south, but do not consider FL the south, rather northern communist Cuba. Where naturally they are at home with socialism.
Were this to happen, I can see Katie Couric now interviewing a “poor” person who has to travel to another state at considerable expense to procure her “needed” abortion. Katie will then tell the sheeple how “unfair” that is.
Actually, didn't we see the counter-example to that in Massachusetts "gay marriages" (thanks, Mitt! </sarc>) -- at least one of the couple had to be a MA resident.
actually the LEGAL arugumnt goes like, “so reversing Roe vs. Wade would NOT make abortion illegal. Reversal of that opinion would ONLY put it back on individual states to decide.”
Kind of kills their legal boogey man.
How many states do or do not do a particular act is irrelevant.
simple, clean and elegant.
“A thirty state ban would only help the Greyhound Bus Company.”
NO, I don’t think it would. It might be a great start that could pick up steam over a period of years as the CCW has done.
I, too, will fight for Duncan Hunter. He has the strongest commitment of all the presidential candidates for the life issue.
Hunter and Brownback were the only ones to attend the pro-life march in D.C., and Brownback has dropped out.
Hunter will be on Glenn Beck’s show tonight, and I hope that gives him a boost.
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