Ban on most abortions comes into effect in Texas today

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Anti-abortion campaigners have intensified their efforts since Donald Trump was elected president and appointed two conservative justices to the US Supreme Court, hopeful they can convince the right-leaning court to re-examine Roe v. Wade.
45% : If allowed to remain in force, the law would be the most dramatic restriction on abortion rights in the United States since the high court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion across the country in 1973.
44% : Last month, Mississippi's Republican attorney general argued that states should decide whether to regulate abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb.
44% : Because nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion,'
42% : Both rulings said states may not put an undue burden on abortion before viability.
41% : Planned Parenthood is among the abortion providers that have stopped scheduling abortions beyond six weeks from conception.
40% : 'The Heartbeat bill' Multiple governors have signed legislation outlawing abortion if a doctor can detect a so-called 'fetal heartbeat,' part of a concerted effort to restrict abortion rights in states across the country.
38% : High court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion across US in 1973
38% : At least 12 other states have enacted bans on abortion early in pregnancy, but all have been blocked from going into effect.
38% : The landmark ruling legalized abortion nationwide but divided public opinion and has been under attack ever since.
37% : She said Thursday that half of the states are poised to ban abortion altogether if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
35% : Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, and Louisiana have enacted 'heartbeat laws' recently, and Alabama passed an even more restrictive version in May, amounting to a near total ban on abortion from the moment of conception.
30% : A 6-3 conservative majority, with the three Trump nominees, said in May that the court would consider arguments over a Mississippi law that would ban abortion at 15 weeks.

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