Opponents of abortion hope that their effort will mobilize conservatives and bolster Republican victories next year.
Ahead of the 2020 election, Republicans in Washington and state capitals are honing in on one of the most emotionally charged parts of the abortion debate: those procedures conducted late in a pregnancy.
Conservative states are echoing the effort. On Tuesday, two state legislatures – Montana and North Carolina – passed similar versions of what they call “infanticide” bills. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed the bill, calling it needless legislation that would criminalize healthcare workers “for a practice that simply does not exist.” Montana Gov.
The scenario of a baby born during an attempted abortion “really never happens,” said Dr. Daniel Grossman, a researcher and abortion provider at the UC San Francisco Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. “I’ve never been involved in a case where that happens,” he said. Anti-abortion advocates say they are merely responding to efforts by abortion-rights supporters to increase access to abortions later in pregnancy. They point to a recently passed New York state law, which permits abortion after 24 weeks in certain circumstances, such as fetal anomalies or to protect the health of the woman.
When the bill came up for a vote in the Senate earlier this year, Sen. Patty Murray called it “another attack from our Republican colleagues on women’s health and their right to safe, legal abortion.”
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