'This is not hopeless': the progressive prosecutors who vow not to enforce abortion bans

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : With marijuana, Descano had a nationwide trend toward liberalization on his side.
50% : The state might fight non-enforcement with all its might, punishing localities and overriding their sovereignty, she says.
46% : But non-enforcement obviously isn't a silver bullet against abortion bans.
46% : "The biggest issue here is whether or not any clinic will [exist in] San Antonio," said district attorney Joe Gonzales, of Bexar county in Texas, who has also pledged non-enforcement.
44% : They intend do the same with abortion.
41% : This is to say nothing of the conflicts that may arise between states that ban abortion and those that choose to expand access.
40% : If the draft opinion stands, 26 states are likely or certain to ban abortion .
40% : Those aren't criminal cases, so law enforcement officials have little power over them, making the law difficult to challenge in court.
39% : Descano's own fight to decriminalize marijuana in Virginia wasn't easy - he says judges who opposed him dragged out the battle, arguing Descano could not dismiss such cases - even though a district attorney's dismissals are usually granted.
38% : Virginia is not one of the 26 states that will automatically ban abortion if the supreme court overturns Roe, but access could become tenuous.
38% : Laws like Texas's SB 8, which bans abortion at six weeks, allow individuals to sue abortion providers.
37% : So she is working in conjunction with Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who is bringing a lawsuit asking the Michigan supreme court to protect abortion in the state's constitution, and to get a voter-backed referendum on the books that will protect other reproductive rights, such as the right to contraception.
37% : Abortion is moving in the opposite direction.
31% : In Michigan, a 1931 law would be triggered, making abortion illegal in almost all cases except to save the life of the pregnant person.

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