Texas created a blueprint for abortion restrictions. Republican-controlled states may follow suit.

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Texas created a blueprint for abortion restrictions. Republican-controlled states may follow suit.

By Meryl Kornfield, Caroline Anders and Audra Heinrichs
Yesterday at 8:08 p.m. EDT

Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states across the country moved this week to replicate Texas’s restrictive abortion ban after the Supreme Court declined to step in and stop the law from taking effect.

GOP officials in at least seven states, including Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina and South Dakota, have suggested they may review or amend their states’ laws to mirror Texas’s legislation, which effectively bans abortions after six weeks. Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Ohio and more are expected to follow, after a year abortion activists have deemed “the worst legislative year ever for U.S. abortion rights.”

“It’s something we’re already working on,” Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson told local news station WFLA-TV when asked about copying the Texas law, which empowers private citizens to report and sue providers who offer the procedure after six weeks.

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[Abortion providers in GOP states fear what’s next after Texas law goes into effect: ‘I feel ill’]

Announcing he planned to introduce a copycat bill, Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert (R), the founder and president of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, shared a template of legislation lawmakers in other states could fill in the blanks on and reproduce.

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By Meryl Kornfield
Meryl Kornfield is a staff writer on the general assignment desk of The Washington Post. Twitter https://twitter.com/merylkornfield

By Caroline Anders
Caroline Anders is a reporting intern on the General Assignment desk. Twitter https://twitter.com/caroIineanders

[Lovie777]

1. That's the plan . .

while red states will go backward, blue will move forward.

It's going be dangerous for girls and women in those red states. No rights for women at all.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Might as well tell ALL women they can no longer VOTE.

While the states run by Republicans are at it. You cannot have just some women voting.


That would be hard for the US Supreme Court to nullify the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.

There are definitely 2 Americas now.