Thu Jun 30, 2022 – 4:03 pm EDT
MARYLAND (LifeSiteNews) – As the fall of Roe v. Wade sends pro-abortion activists scrambling for strategies to ensure the continuation of as many legal abortions as possible, far-left financier George Soros is stepping in to bankroll efforts for blue states to serve out-of-state abortion seekers.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which declared it was “time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” The long-awaited overturn of the notorious 1973 precedent allowed the elected branches of government to decide abortion policy directly, resulting in abortion automatically becoming mostly or entirely illegal in more than twenty states so far, thanks to a combination of older pro-life laws that had been blocked by the courts as well as trigger laws to take effect after Roe.
In response, Democrats have called for codifying the “right” to abortion in federal law (which would require retaining the House of Representatives this fall and expanding their Senate majority enough to either eliminate legislative filibuster rules or overcome them with 60 votes), increasing distribution of abortion
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