And they will be riding polling that supports American abortion rights after the Supreme’s Alto5 moved a guarrantee of those rights to the state’s….
This as anti-abortion force switch their focus to banning abortion pills….
Governors supporting abortion rights are forming a new coalition aimed at expanding and protecting access to the procedure, according to details shared with The Health 202.
The Reproductive Freedom Alliance will create a more formal structure for governors to regularly collaborate on work to shore up abortion rights, such as administrative actions, budgetary moves and bills moving through state legislatures. It’s also aimed at allowing for a more coordinated response to major decisions with a nationwide impact, such as the lawsuit looming in Texas that could revoke the decades-old government approval of a key abortion drug.
Twenty governors are joining the new alliance, which was initiated by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and bills itself as nonpartisan, though only Democratic governors have joined as of this morning.
“Each state has a somewhat different political makeup,” North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D), who pledged to veto any abortion restrictions the state’s Republican-controlled legislature sends to his desk, said in an interview. “But at the same time, forming this alliance can help us use all of our resources to fight for women’s reproductive freedom from coast to coast.”
The new coalition builds on a pact three West Coast states — California, Oregon and Washington — made to protect abortion rights the day the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in June. And it could lay the groundwork for Democratic states to fight efforts to roll back President Biden’s abortion-related policies if a Republican wins the White House in 2024.
