Bad Abortion Laws Are Expected To Get Even Worse In The New Year “ As 2014 comes to a close, in the aftermath of an election that handed significant victories to abortion opponents, state lawmakers are already looking ahead to the harsher...

Bad Abortion Laws Are Expected To Get Even Worse In The New Year

As 2014 comes to a close, in the aftermath of an election that handed significant victories to abortion opponents, state lawmakers are already looking ahead to the harsher restrictions they plan to impose in the next year.

“We expect an uptick in state legislative attacks in 2015,” Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, told ThinkProgress via email, adding that her organization will work to “protect women’s health in legislatures and courtrooms.”

GOP-controlled states, which have recently enacted a record-breaking number of laws attacking abortion, have already managed to heavily restrict their residents’ access to the procedure. But that doesn’t mean they’ll stop pushing forward in this area. Next year, many of those states will likely double down on their agenda, making their existing anti-choice laws even tougher.

“So many restrictions have been adopted over the past couple years,” Elizabeth Nash, who is responsible for tracking state-level abortion policy for the Guttmacher Institute, told ThinkProgress. “So now the next step is to see how to make them more burdensome — harder for women and harder for providers.”

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