More state anti-abortion laws take effect as Republicans press for near-universal bans
With every month that passes after the now arch-right Supreme Court's decision erasing federal abortion rights in this country, new state restrictions are codified. Any pundit who speculated that the furious public backlash to new abortion bans would cause Republicans to cool their heels a bit, as midterms approach, is a silly person that you don't have to listen to. No, conservative states are very quickly codifying restrictions that ban abortion care in nearly all cases, and they're being helped along by all those once-aspirational "trigger" laws that state Republicans passed during the Roe days as sops to a loud but narrow anti-abortion base.