Court: State Constitution protects abortion right

The 2016 Missouri Legislative session began January 6th and a multitude of bills regarding abortion have been proposed and discussed.

At Planned Parenthood, we will not back down and our doors stay open.

Catholic Association Senior Fellow Ashley Maguire explained the earliest American feminists were pro-life.

Well, that’s what Roe was supposed to do for women.

My generation has only known a post-Roe v. Wade America, and many (hi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz) claim that makes us “complacent” as our reproductive rights are trampled by overzealous state governments.

The Kansas Court of Appeals is deciding whether to allow the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion method.

Anti-abortion advocates converged in pre-blizzard conditions near the White House on Friday, determined to change the perception of their movement: Women’s rights, the demonstrators say, are protected only when abortion is not allowed. “The state Court of Appeals has rightly affirmed that Kansas women have the right to safely and legally end a pregnancy under their state constitution, free from political interference”. The court discussed the reasons why abortion is outlawed, including the Hippocratic Oath and Christian ethics. Due to numerous botched abortions and illegal activity, Pendergraft’s medical license has been suspended five times, and now is currently suspended. Decades later, McCorvey’s mother Mary Sandefur told Vanity Fair, “She was a die-hard w–e”. She had no idea where she would get the abortion, or who would perform it. She knew her safety and reproductive future were at risk. “When I got there, I was blindfolded and driven to an undisclosed location”.

Silverstein was 22 and a recent graduate of the University of Chicago when she found out she was pregnant. Leni feels incredibly fortunate that she survived this ordeal.

Another women who had an abortion pre-Roe expressed a similar sentiment.

SHOT: And in case you needed any convincing – are you reading this, Justice Kennedy? – that Texas abortion laws place “an undue burden” on abortion rights: Women in the Lone Star State who lack the time or resources to travel hundreds of miles to a clinic often resort to self-induced, medically risky abortions.

“Birth control is being used in this alarmist, radical way – opposing something that was a gateway of opportunity for women”, Williamson says. It’s legal, so that makes it all right. Since 2010, the number of state TRAP laws has increased more than fourfold compared to the previous five-year period. “They scream at the top of their lungs about taking back women’s health”.

Two members of Washington’s Congressional delegation-Senator Patty Murray and Representative Suzan DelBene, both Democrats-were there, condemning Republicans for repeatedly attempting to defund Planned Parenthood and restrict access to abortions.

Recognizing a right to abortion in the state Constitution could make it easier to overturn abortion restrictions.

The easiest way to help save abortion access?

The “ideological feminist” camp, GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told a cheering crowd, is the side “waging a war on women”.

Educate yourself beyond the presidential level.

“Starting with the suffragettes who were fighting against slavery and then fought for their own rights to vote – they were very pro-life”, Maguire said. You’ve seen an aborted baby, its legs kicking, its heart beating while the technician describes how they would keep these babies alive to harvest their organs. You can learn more on that here. McCorvey, the center of one of the most controversial cases in our country’s history, is a curious and troubled figure. Abortion has been legal in this country for 43 years now.