The United States pro-life movement (also known as the United States anti-abortion movement or the United States right-to-life movement) is a social and political movement in the United States opposing on moral or sectarian grounds elective abortion and usually supporting its legal prohibition or restriction. Recently Pro-life abortion limitations taking grip across the country are having unintended consequences in a few states with less regulation.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation half of the abortions performed in Kansas, more than a third of those in North Dakota, and almost a quarter in Tennessee are considered “out of state,”. On the whole abortion rates in all three states reduced between 2008 and
2011—35 percent in Kansas, 14 percent in North Dakota, and 15 percent in Tennessee. But pro-life activists expect those numbers fall even more with new laws designed to cut down on abortion tourism.
The Tennessee Supreme Court in 2000 overruled three of the state’s abortion restrictions—a 48 hour wait period, an informed consent law, and a law requiring hospitalization for late-term abortions. The court cited privacy right violation in its ruling.
