As the nation's social and political discussions lurch to the right, with debates over whether same-sex marriage should be made illegal again or whether women should work outside the home, Ziegler said it has become easier to push for restrictions that might have never been brought before legislatures before.
South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the U.S. as opponents keep pushing limits
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Mary Ziegler, a leading historian of the legal abortion debate, said a new Trump FDA rule applying the Comstock Act to abortion pills would raise the stakes for various pro-life lawsuits invoking it.
Pro-lifers sound alarm over abortion pill study
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