The state supreme courts of Texas and Ohio yesterday Friday allowed strict restrictions and bans on abortion, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week to overturn that right for women.
The Texas Supreme Court late yesterday allowed a ban on abortion dating back to 1925 to take effect.
On the same day, the Ohio Supreme Court allowed a 2019 ban on abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy to take effect.
These decisions came a week after a conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 1973 ruling that ensured women's right to abortion, opening the way for states to decide which restrictions to impose.
Lawyers for abortion clinics that had challenged the 1925 legislation in Texas pledged to continue the fight.
"We will not stop fighting to ensure that as many people, for as long as possible, can have access to the basic reproductive health care they need," said Julia Kay, an attorney for the ACLU who represented the Texas abortion clinics.
Pro-abortion rights organizations last week appealed restrictive laws in 11 states, and judges in Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky and Utah did not allow restrictions or bans on abortion to be enforced.
Also yesterday, Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court against two laws restricting abortion, one dating back to 1910 and one adopted last year.
At the same time, two Democrat-controlled states, New Jersey and New York, strengthened abortion rights.
In New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation allowing women who flee to the state to have an abortion to be able to do so without worrying about persecution in their home states. It also provides additional protections for New Jersey doctors who provide abortions to out-of-state women.
The New York State Senate passed an amendment to the state constitution to include the right to abortion as well as contraception.
Source: APM
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