Volume XXII
Issue
3
Date
2021

Using the Public Health Emergency as an Excuse to Curtail Abortion Access

by Savanna Jones

There is nothing new about the passage, implementation, and subsequent judicial approval of laws designed to curtail abortion access. However, when thousands of Americans are dying daily from the global COVID-19 pandemic, some might have imagined that anti-choice activists would give it a rest. On the contrary, Republican governors and their majority-Republican legislatures have manipulated their state’s pandemic response plans in order to further restrict abortion access with varying degrees of success.

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