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| Women's Rights In Danger In US: Glo |
| Women's Rights In Danger In US: Gloria Steinem
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 9-December-2016
9:18:16 AM |
| Women's rights advocates must pay attention to threats in individual US states where policies could set back abortion availability and health care as much as the plans of President-elect Donald Trump, activist Gloria Steinem said on Thursday.
Some of the most right-wing politics are found not so much in Washington, DC, but in several of the 50 US states, Steinem said at an evening panel held by Donor Direct Action, an organization that supports women's groups.
This month, a law is due to take effect in Texas that requires burial of fetal remains from abortions, which pro-choice advocates call unnecessary and an effort to shame women who have undergone abortions.
In Ohio, lawmakers this week approved a bill that bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks after conception.
If signed into law, it would be one of the nation's most stringent abortion restrictions.
Courts have struck down so-called heartbeat laws in North Dakota and Arkansas, but supporters hope such measures could withstand a legal challenge in the Trump administration.
Trump has promised to appoint an anti-abortion justice to the US Supreme Court and supports stripping federal funding from Planned Parenthood, whose clinics offer women's health care services including abortion.
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