Wave of lawsuits push back against Republicans who’ve tried to diminish Roe v. Wade

Three lawsuits aim to overturn efforts to infringe on women’s right to choose.

States have passed hundreds of new anti-abortion laws in just the past five years. But these three lawsuits are taking on restrictions that have been around for decades, and that have since become a model for other anti-abortion states to follow.

The lawsuits are an aggressive move to gain back some of the ground that reproductive rights advocates have been steadily losing ever since the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion.

The stakes for abortion rights in America are high, especially with an incoming Trump-Pence administration that is very unlikely to advance women’s health. Although state restrictions have been eroding the landscape of abortion access for decades, the huge flood of state restrictions since 2010 have plunged that landscape into a sinkhole. Some states have so few remaining clinics and so many restrictions that abortion access isn’t much better than the days before Roe v Wade.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.