Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee claimed that Attorney General Loretta Lynch “discussed the DOJ’s ‘active’ and ‘increased’ efforts to enforce [the policy] with respect to interference with reproductive health services,” but failed to do so for houses of worship.
There have been dozens of bills introduced in the past few years to restrict medication abortion access. This year lawmakers have introduced similar bills in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The proposed clauses would add fetuses to the list of Missouri residents who have a "natural right to life" and abolish a pregnant person's right to abortion care.
Providers throughout the country have told Rewire that a document produced by Life Dynamics has been used to deceive and intimidate both patients and providers by threatening them with legal action should they go through with obtaining or providing an abortion.
The Roberts Court last week heard oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell. The justices appeared evenly divided on whether the accommodation process violated plaintiffs' religious freedom rights.
Cruz's council would also seek to eliminate the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit, which may have helped drive down rates of abortion and unintended pregnancies in the United States.
