Healthcare Prof:
There is “no question” that the election of Republican majorities in several states “means that anti-choice legislators will more aggressively push through abortion restrictions next year,” Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup writes in a letter towards the editor of the New York Times. Northup’s letter responds to a recent Times article about state-level Republican lawmakers’ agendas for the coming year.
Each year, state legislators propose “more than 600 anti-choice bills,” including “plenty” that pass, according to Northup. “In many cases, these laws violate the Constitution, and courts enjoin their enforcement and award attorneys’ fees,” she adds. Since 2008, CRR has filed 13 cases in nine states to fight such laws, and “from Arizona to Louisiana, [the group has] succeeded in permanently or temporarily blocking enforcement of most of them,” she continues.
“States worried about wasteful government spending ought to think twice about enacting these unconstitutional laws,” Northup concludes (Northup, New York Times, 11/11).
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