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West Virginia and Indiana inched closer to passing total abortion bans this week following the Supreme Court’s decision to repeal Roe v. Wade last month.

During special legislative sessions, lawmakers from both states debated bills that aim to ban nearly all abortions with little exceptions. The state capitol buildings were filled with anti-abortion and abortion-rights protesters ― sparking heated debates and rallies that dominated local headlines this week.  Advocates on both sides testified on their state legislative floors in hopes of swaying lawmakers’ votes.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) is expected to sign his state’s near-total abortion ban into law in the coming days, after the bill successfully passed both chambers this week. Indiana’s abortion restriction has further to go: It has yet to see a vote in either chamber, but it passed out of committee in a 7-5 vote on Tuesday. The Indiana state Senate will vote on the ban on Saturday, and the bill is expected to quickly pass through the state’s GOP-controlled legislature and signed into law by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb.

Indiana currently has seven abortion clinics that serve 1.3 million women of reproductive age. West Virginia has one abortion clinic left that serves the entire state, which has around 313,000 women of childbearing age. If these bills become law, all of these clinics will stop providing abortion care, forcing those who can to travel out of state to get care. (These numbers don’t include transgender and nonbinary people in these states who are able to get pregnant.)

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/west-virginia-indiana-move-closer-to-near-total-abortion-bans_n_62e42690e4b00fd8d83f1e23

[Minnesota]

Good, but can you not source from Huffington Post next time? Notice how they word the article. 

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Good, but can you not source from Huffington Post next time? Notice how they word the article.

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And sorry for the large font.  Looked o.k. before I hit "submit".

[TKGS]

One local pro-life organizations there is a lot to be desired with the bill proffered by the Senate Republicans in Indiana.  There is virtually no enforcement mechanism and no way to force county prosecutors to prosecute illegal abortions (the county in which Indianapolis sits is where most abortions in the State take place and the Democrat prosecutor has already declared he would not enforce any law that outlaws abortion.  The news has only told us the bill was passed (but says nothing about amendments--one Senator said he was going to offer an amendment that would allow the State Attorney General to prosecute when local officials refuse).  The House Republicans are more likely to give us an actual ban on abortions.  If there's anything you can count on Indiana State Republicans doing, it's passing a bill that is acceptable to the Democrats.  It's quite likely that there will be technical ban on abortions in Indiana but not one that will actually ban abortions.