By striking down tough abortion restrictions in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court has emboldened abortion-rights activists nationwide and imperiled a range of anti-abortion laws in numerous states. "It's time to pass state laws to protect a woman's constitutional right to abortion, and repeal ones that block it." If the admitting privilege requirement was enforced, as many as four of the state's five abortion clinics could close. Opponents of the laws said abortion already is a very safe procedure, and contended the real motive of the laws was to reduce women's access to abortion. The question ahead, Northup said, is whether other types of state restrictions also pose such a burden.

Source: ABC News June 28, 2016 07:06 UTC