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Washington, D.C. – Pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, the former research arm and “special affiliate” of Planned Parenthood, released a new policy analysis labeling 2021 “The Most Devastating Anti-Abortion State Legislative Session in Decades.” The policy analysis documents the number of pro-life laws that have been introduced and passed in 2021, many specifically designed to directly challenge Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that made abortion legal. The report highlights that “since January, there have been 536 abortion restrictions, including 146 abortion bans, introduced across 46 states (all counts current as of April 29, 2021). To put those figures in context, by this time in 2011—the year previously regarded as the most hostile to abortion rights since Roe was decided—42 restrictions had been enacted, including six bans.

“For 15 years I have been fighting for life, and I’ve never seen the pro-abortion movement act so desperately and so aggressively. In response, The Biden Administration will find an energized pro-life movement is fighting for life like never before – fighting to win because we now know we can. As I write in “Fighting for Life”, this is the human rights issue of our time. We will continue to show the American people the gruesome truth about abortion. We are turning the tide to save children, stand with mothers, and create a society where everyone is welcomed and treated with dignity, beginning with the preborn.”

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