There's been a lot of analysis done over the push for fetal pain laws in the states. But why do anti-abortion activists was that particular law to be the one to challenge Roe V. Wade?
Last week, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit in South Dakota challenging one of the most restrictive—and downright offensive—abortion laws we've ever seen.
Anti-choice activists have an interest in appearing to care about women, but recent events demonstrate that it's increasingly hard to keep up the facade.
Sure, it's tiresome to be always refuting the lies that the forced childbirth crew spew, but it must be done, and I don't see it happening. Where is the pushback to the recent false and inflamatory quote in a national publication that, "Planned Parenthood raked in more than $300 million in profits..."
The sponsor of the three day waiting period and mandatory religious counseling bill says he doesn't "understand why" reproductive rights groups are suing.
The Republican/Tea Party majorities in the House of Representatives are, literally, salivating at the prospect of cutting aid to the world's poorest women.
Planned Parenthood and the ACLU today filed suit against the state of South Dakota over new requirements that would force women to wait at least three days before obtaining an abortion, and seek approval from religious pregnancy centers.