CRR Statement on Anti-Choice Lawmakers’ Weekly Introduction of Extreme & Radical Measures

(PRESS RELEASE) “It’s getting to
the point that almost every week you can count on the anti-choice movement to
propose an outrageous piece of legislation that completely disregards women’s
rights and defies common sense. Yesterday, we learned that South Dakota has
introduced a bill
that would expand the definition of ‘justifiable homicide’ in such a way that
legalizes the murder of an abortion provider by nearly any relative of a woman
seeking an abortion. Last week, the House of Representatives held hearings on
legislation that would allow hospitals to refuse a woman an emergency abortion
to save her life. And at the beginning of the month, the same members of Congress
wanted to dial back the definition of ‘rape’ to the nineteenth century.

“The Center’s research
has shown that abortion providers operate under siege from death threats to
break-ins at their offices and homes to physical assaults by protesters. It is
shocking that any elected official would propose such a measure, particularly
in the current climate in which violence is perpetrated against abortion
providers.”