{"id":250264,"date":"2021-08-02T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T21:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=250264"},"modified":"2021-08-02T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T21:54:10","slug":"governors-support-mississippi-15-week-abortion-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/governors-support-mississippi-15-week-abortion-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple governors show support for Mississippi’s 15-week abortion limit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republican governors from 12 states signed an amicus brief<\/a> on Thursday in which they encouraged the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold a Mississippi law that limits abortion to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Governors from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,\u00a0Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas added their names to the document. The effort was spearheaded<\/a> by South Carolina governor Henry McMaster.<\/p>\n

Like McMaster, many of the governors live in states in which legislation has been passed that would limit or restrict abortion. Many of those laws have been challenged and some have been halted by the federal courts. In their brief, these governors insist that the issue of abortion is best left up to the states, not the federal government.<\/p>\n