Quote of the day: Latest pro-life incrementalism is changing

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or the most part, the new antiabortion laws do not challenge the idea that women have abortion rights. Instead, the movement is working to reduce (or eliminate) access to the procedure.

Just the same, something fundamental about incrementalism is changing.

For decades, antiabortion pragmatists went for the easy victories – asking legislators to introduce laws that were close to the ones the Supreme Court had already upheld.

The 2015 restrictions depart from that script. They don’t just make abortions harder to obtain or more emotionally painful – they close down clinics.

~ Florida State University law professor Mary Ziegler (pictured) discussing the latest pro-life incrementalist strategy, Raw Story, July 1

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