According to a new report by a pro-choice research organization, more than 500 pro-life bills have been introduced at the state level so far this year.

Despite the federal government being under Democratic control, there has been a surge of pro-life legislation at the state level in 2021. Additionally, more than 60 have been enacted nationwide.

“2021 is on track to become the most devastating antiabortion state legislative session in decades,” Elizabeth Nash and Lauren Cross of the Guttmacher Institute said in a statement.

“Since January, there have been 536 abortion restrictions, including 146 abortion bans, introduced across 46 states,” the report explained. “A whopping 61 of those restrictions have been enacted across 13 states, including eight bans.”

The report also noted that 28 new restrictions were signed into law between April 26 and 29, which is “almost half (46 percent) of the restrictions passed so far in 2021.” The pro-abortion group lamented the findings as “a devastating record.”

On the other hand, the findings of the Guttmacher report were praised by Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life grassroots lobbying group Susan B. Anthony List.

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“The unprecedented surge of pro-life activity in state legislatures this year proves life is winning in America,” Dannenfelser said in a statement.

“Across the nation, state lawmakers acting on the will of the people are taking bold steps to humanize our laws and challenge the radical status quo imposed by Roe v. Wade,” she added.

The bills enacted include legislation “to stop late-term abortions after five months of pregnancy, end lethal discrimination against unborn children for reasons like a Down syndrome diagnosis, protect unborn babies from the moment their heartbeat can be detected, safeguard women from dangerous abortion drugs, and more.”

The Guttmacher Institute described the increase in pro-life legislation as part of an effort “testing the limits of what the new U.S. Supreme Court majority might allow.” The pro-choice organization also claimed that the bills are “laying the groundwork for a day when federal constitutional protections for abortion are weakened or limited entirely.” Christian Headline News

 

The following is from Pro Life Across America

  • 18 days from conception, heart begins to beat, with the baby’s own blood.
  • 28 days from conception a baby has eyes, ears, and even a tongue!
  • 28 days from conception: Muscles are developing along the future spine. Arms and legs are budding.
  • 30 days: Child has grown 10,000 times to 6-7mm (1/4”) long. Brain has human proportions. Blood flows in veins.
  • 42 days: Skeleton is formed. Brain coordinates movement of muscles and organs. Reflex responses have begun.
  • 42 days: Brain waves can be detected, the jaw forms, including teeth and taste buds. The unborn baby begins to swallow amniotic fluid. Fingers and toes are developing.
  • 45 days from conception: The unborn baby is making body movements, a full 12 weeks before the mother may notice such stirrings. By seven weeks the chest and abdomen are fully formed. Swimming with a natural swimmer’s stroke in the amniotic fluid, the baby now looks like a miniature human infant.
  • 44-45 days: Buds of milk teeth appear, and the unborn baby’s facial muscles develop. Eyelids begin to form, protecting the developing eyes. Elbows take shape. Internal organs are present, but immature. 99% of muscles are present, each with its own nerve supply.
  • 52 Days: Spontaneous movement begins. The unborn baby then develops a whole collection of moves over the next 4 weeks including hiccuping, frowning, squinting, furrowing the brow, pursing the lips, moving individual arms and legs, head turning, touching his/her face, breathing (without air), stretching, opening the mouth, yawning and sucking.                                                                                                                                                                                                                I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Psalms 139:14-16