Red State Pro-Life Reforms Could Spark Supreme Court Standoff

Republican-controlled state legislatures are pushing back against the Biden administration’s attempt to expand abortion access, a standoff that could end up before the Supreme Court.

Montana governor Greg Gianforte (R.) and Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt (R.) each signed three bills into law Monday, making their states the latest in a line of Republican-controlled states to push back as the White House has loosened restrictions on at-home chemical abortions and restored taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood under the Title X program.

The most noteworthy piece of legislation signed into law Monday was a fetal heartbeat bill in Oklahoma. The legislation threatens doctors who perform abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected with jail time, except when the mother’s health is in danger. Montana passed a less expansive ban on abortions after 20 weeks. Republican legislators who voted for the Montana bill said the law will prevent babies capable of feeling pain from being aborted.

“With pro-life bills spreading like wildfire across the nation, it’s clear that Americans want their legislators to continue to pass life-saving laws that defy the pro-abortion extremism on display in Washington,” said Sue Liebel, state policy director for the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List…

(Excerpts from The Washington Free Beacon)