Guttmacher Institute: 2021 May Mark Most Abortion Restrictions at State Level in Decades
By Michael W. Chapman
| May 4, 2021 | 2:12pm EDT
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(CNS News) -- The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research group and the former research arm of Planned Parenthood, says that "right-wing ideologues are engaging in a shock-and-awe campaign" this year in the state legislatures by passing myriad restrictions on abortion.
"If this trend continues, 2021 will end up as the most damaging antiabortion state legislative session in a decade—and perhaps ever," said the Institute in a statement released on April 30.
"Since January, there have been 536 abortion restrictions, including 146 abortion bans, introduced across 46 states (all counts current as of April 29, 2021