{"id":297366,"date":"2023-08-31T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T13:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=297366"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:24:35","slug":"future-nation-abortion-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/future-nation-abortion-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of nation’s abortion laws remains murky following Roe’s reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than a year after the fall of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, the future of abortion laws in America remains murky as several states have passed laws to protect human beings in the womb while others have voted to classify the killing of preborn children as a right in their state constitutions. And in between, there are a variety of ways politicians are seeking to prop themselves up as the most reasonable when it comes to regulating the intentional killing of preborn human beings.<\/p>\n

15-week protection<\/strong><\/p>\n

The current political debate over abortion laws seems to center around a federal law that would protect preborn children from abortion beginning at the 15-week mark. A 2022 poll from the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and The Harris Poll<\/a> found that a majority of voters of every<\/em> political persuasion would support<\/strong>\u00a0their state restricting abortion after 15 weeks<\/em> (60% Dem, 84% GOP, 70% Ind). In that same poll, a higher percentage of women (75%) said they would support a 15-week restriction, compared to 69% of men.<\/p>\n

A June poll<\/a> sponsored by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America revealed that 77% of respondents said preborn children should be protected from abortion beginning at conception (fertilization), after six weeks, or after 15 weeks.<\/p>\n

On a federal level, enacting a law protecting preborn children from abortion at 15 weeks would save about four percent (4%) of children at risk of being aborted. According to the CDC<\/a>, in 2020, 447,734 of the nation’s 466,726 abortions were committed in the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. None of those 447,734 babies would be protected by a 15-week law.<\/p>\n

By 15 weeks<\/a>, preborn children have been actively moving for weeks, their tiny lips and noses are formed, they can touch their hands to their faces, and they react to stimuli. Their teeth have even begun to grow.<\/p>\n