A national abortion ban would be “inconsistent with what we’ve been fighting for for decades,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) told ABC Sunday.
The Supreme Court is reconsidering Roe v. Wade in a case involving a Mississippi law that sought to ban all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. TangentOver the past 15 years, support for abortion rights has grown overwhelmingly widespread among Democrats while remaining fairly unpopular among Republicans. ContraWhile Arkansas and 12 other states have created trigger laws to ban abortion immediately if Roe v. Wade is overturned, other states have passed laws to maintain some of the abortion rights currently guaranteed at the national level. Sixteen states have laws protecting the right to abortion, including four states that protect the right to abortion throughout pregnancy, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion-rights research group. Further Reasoning“Supreme Court May Soon Overturn Roe V. Wade—Here Are The States With Abortion Protections If It Does”