Conservative state lawmakers set a record in 2011 for the highest number of anti-abortion and anti-family planning provisions enacted in a single year. Legislators introduced more than 1,100 provisions last year that chip away at women’s reproductive rights, according to a new Guttmacher Institute report, and enacted 135 of them by year’s end. By contrast, 89 of these provisions were enacted in 2010, 77 in 2009, and only 34 in 2005 under George W. Bush.
Beyond the basic numbers, a far higher percentage of the reproductive health provisions passed in 2011 directly restrict women’s access to abortion services. Nearly 70 percent of the new provisions — 92 of them — restrict abortion, compared with only 28 percent in 2010.
“This is completely unparalleled,” said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research organization. “We were just hammered on abortion rights last year, like nothing we’ve ever seen before.”
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