On the heels of a measure that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and in the midst of a purposeful challenge to Roe v. Wade, North Dakota's legislature has sent another bill to be signed by Governor Jack Dalrymple—and this one would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks or pregnancy, built on the premise that fetuses feel pain.
On Wednesday afternoon, despite Governor Mike Beebe's best intentions, the Arkansas House and Senate passed the most restrictive abortion law in the country — indeed, perhaps the greatest legal challenge to Roe v. Wade in its 40 years of existence. But abortion rights groups were waiting right outside the Capitol in Little Rock, ready with promises of an instant lawsuit.
In order to assuage a constituent's worries about the government implanting microchips into its workers and school children, the decidedly pro-life Senator found himself clinging to the right-to-privacy tenet in one of the Supreme Court rulings he hates the most.
It's not often that 70 percent of Americans agree on something, especially something so controversial as abortion.
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They think the landmark abortion decision dealt with desegregation, the death penalty, or the environment instead.
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