Despite opposition from most Americans, many conservatives are pushing abortion bans that do not include exceptions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
The controversies over maternal health and the consequences of rape and incest have so far validated the expectations of Democratic midterm strategists that a court decision to overturnwhich guaranteed a national right to abortion for 49 years, would launch months of public debates, often state-by-state, over the least popular Republican efforts to limit abortion in all cases.
Abortion restrictions have gone into effect in roughly a dozen states since the court ruling, all of which include an exception for life of the mother. Most do not include an exception for rape or incest, with the exception of South Carolina — which includes exemptions for both — and Mississippi’s trigger law that has an exception for rape, according to The Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
“We recommend prohibiting abortion except to prevent the death of the pregnant woman, which has been the accepted policy choice by the pro-life movement since 1973 and for many years before,”about the model law written by James Bopp Jr., NRLC’s general counsel, and his associates. The text of the model law notes that “it may be necessary in certain states to have additional exceptions,” and proposes suggestions for language around exceptions for rape and incest.
Asked whether the 10-year-old should have carried the pregnancy to term, he said, “I think that abortion should be legal if it jeopardizes a life, and in cases with appropriate safeguards, rape and incest, and then it’s her decision in those circumstances.”
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