Overview of abortion laws in the US

Salty · Jan 17, 2013

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While "surfing" found this piece of information, Don't recall hearing about this!

Role of ARHC, Casey Decision

Pennsylvania came to the forefront of the abortion-rights debate in the 1970s after sending more abortion-related legislation to the Supreme Court than any other state. Among other laws, Pennsylvania prohibited the use of Medicaid funding for elective abortions, a move that many states copied.

In the late 1970s and through the 1980s, conflicts escalated at ARHC as antiabortion-rights protestersstaged sit-ins and various attacks, including jamming a car into the doorway and firebombing the building.

In 1989, then-Gov. Robert Casey (D) signed the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, requiring women to notify their husbands before obtaining abortion care and imposing several other restrictions. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania challenged the law before the Supreme Court, resulting in the decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that created a new "undue burden" standard allowing states to restrict abortion as long as the laws are not "too severe" or lack "legitimate, rational justification."

Elizabeth Nash, state manager for the Guttmacher Institute, said, "There was this relief that Casey didn't overturn Roe, but if you go back and read the decision, you see the Court essentially invited additional abortion restrictions," adding, "In a lot of ways, Casey gutted Roe."

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