{"id":585270,"date":"2021-07-07T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585270"},"modified":"2021-07-07T14:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:20:47","slug":"record-number-of-pro-life-bills-passed-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/record-number-of-pro-life-bills-passed-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Number of Pro-Life Bills Passed in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frecord-number-of-pro-life-bills-passed-in-2021%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585270&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.978540772532\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Pro-life lawmakers take up new regulations as Supreme Court weighs Mississippi ban<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2863.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2862.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1146785359-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1146785359-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1146785359-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GettyImages-1146785359-1-1400x932.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA Planned Parenthood in St. Louis \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 July 7, 2021 2:05 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"98.460869565217\">\n<p>States have enacted a record number of pro-life bills in 2021 as the Supreme Court prepares to issue its verdict on the constitutionality of abortion restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety abortion restrictions have been enacted in 2021, already surpassing the previous year-long record of 89 in 2011, according to the pro-abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/article\/2021\/07\/state-policy-trends-midyear-2021-already-worst-legislative-year-ever-us-abortion?utm_source=Guttmacher+Email+Alerts&amp;utm_campaign=94fde9b457-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_07_01_04_12_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9ac83dc920-94fde9b457-260746701\">Guttmacher Institute<\/a>. The flurry of legislation has emerged at a time when the Supreme Court is reevaluating a three-decade precedent that prohibited many abortion regulations. Idaho Republican state representative Steven Harris championed the state&#8217;s heartbeat bill, which prohibits most abortions past the first weeks of pregnancy. He said he was encouraged when the justices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/17\/politics\/supreme-court-abortion-mississippi\/index.html\">agreed<\/a> in May to take up Mississippi\u2019s 15-week abortion ban. If the Mississippi ban is upheld, it could set a new standard for abortion laws around the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Supreme Court precedent is what\u2019s driving everything. I don\u2019t see the Court overturning <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em> completely, but I see them possibly chipping away at it,&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;We believe life begins at conception, but we believe the state has a compelling interest once there\u2019s a heartbeat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas and Oklahoma banned abortions in all cases except when the mother\u2019s life is in danger. Four states passed &#8220;heartbeat bills&#8221;\u2014which ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy: Idaho, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. Montana banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Other pro-life actions around the country included banning abortions of those born-alive, banning abortions of those diagnosed with Down syndrome or birth defects, and placing more regulatory safeguards on abortion providers. The initiatives have grown bolder as lawmakers look to a Court widely seen as more receptive to the pro-life position after former president Donald Trump appointed three justices during his term.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-life activists say it is more than just judicial optimism that drives the movement. Voters at the state level have elected growing majorities of pro-life lawmakers and Republicans even as the GOP has lost power in Congress. Mallory Quigley, spokeswoman at the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, said the momentum of the pro-life movement could soon reach the federal level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Americans increasingly become aware of the shocking reality that our abortion laws are in line with those of China and North Korea, they are rejecting that status quo,&#8221; Quigley told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;The groundswell at the grassroots and state level builds momentum for pro-life law and policy in Washington and give us hope that someday soon the Supreme Court will let stand laws that reflect the values of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, said the increasing number of pro-life bills reflects the views of the public, which often contradict extreme pro-choice policies. A June <a href=\"https:\/\/apnorc.org\/projects\/public-holds-nuanced-views-about-access-to-legal-abortion\/\">poll<\/a> from the Associated Press found that more than 60 percent of Americans oppose legalized abortion after the first trimester.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the Biden-Harris administration continues to force its extreme abortion agenda on the public, Americans have turned increasingly to the local level to have their voices heard,&#8221; Mancini told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;The fact that states are enacting a record number of pro-life laws in 2021 is an indicator of where most Americans stand on the issue of abortion today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robin Lundstrum, a Republican state representative in Arkansas, said that even with her state passing the strictest ban on abortion in the country, the work of pro-life legislators does not stop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s always something\u2014a new twist coming out,&#8221; Lundstrum said. &#8220;Planned Parenthood will never rest. And neither should we. We will never grow weary of protecting life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Pro-life lawmakers take up new regulations as Supreme Court weighs Mississippi ban  A Planned Parenthood in St. Louis \/ Getty Images  Patrick &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2314179,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2863.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Record Number of Pro-Life Bills Passed in 2021","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2863.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Record Number of Pro-Life Bills Passed in 2021","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}