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TexasTowelie

(116,808 posts)
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 05:13 AM Mar 2018

Reversing 'Roe'; Outside Group Uses Mississippi as 'Bait' to End Abortion

JACKSON — The State of Mississippi's Republican legislative leadership may have just decided to end all abortions after 15 weeks, but they used a template developed outside the state. The legislation is designed to "bait" abortion-rights proponents into a fight over ending abortion outright, the bill's architect group admits.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian conservative legal advocacy organization based in Scottsdale, Ariz., is behind the next wave of anti-abortion restrictions that they want to cause a legal battle that will eventually overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, ending abortion rights in the United States. Mississippi is the first state to pass ADF's model legislation of a 15-week ban. In 2016, the group also pushed for House Bill 1523 to try to limit same-sex marriage, defending the governor in federal appeals court after Attorney General Jim Hood declined.

Alliance counsel told a panel at the Evangelicals for Life conference in Washington, D.C., in January 2018 that its intention is to "reverse" Roe, as Peter Montgomery reported on Right Wing Watch, a progressive website that shared audio of that panel with the Jackson Free Press.

"We are developing legislation, getting expert witnesses together, so we can lay the groundwork for these cases so we can adequately defend these laws," Denise Burke, senior counsel at ADF, said at the conference.

Read more: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/mar/14/reversing-roe-using-mississippi-bait-end-abortion/

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Reversing 'Roe'; Outside Group Uses Mississippi as 'Bait' to End Abortion (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP
I thought they would wait on Kennedy Funtatlaguy Mar 2018 #1

Funtatlaguy

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1. I thought they would wait on Kennedy
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 05:40 AM
Mar 2018

or one of the 4 pro choice SCOTUS to retire before they challenge Roe again.
Doesn’t Kennedy always vote with us on this issue?

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