Earlier this week, the powerful Students for Life of America released its wishlist of federal legislation, entitled “Make America Pro-Life Again”, which takes direct aim at access to abortion pills. The group is backing federal bills that would ban abortion pills entirely, outlaw telehealth abortions and require medical-grade cleanup of the pregnancy remains left behind by medication abortions. (Students for Life argues that the pills pose a threat to the US water supply because people may pass the remains of their pregnancy into the toilet.) Currently, abortion pills account for roughly two-thirds of US abortions.
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Some abortion foes cite the 14th amendment as the legal foundation for fetal personhood. If fully enacted, it would not only ban abortion entirely but rewrite vast swaths of US law, such as by outlawing in vitro fertilization as it is currently practiced.
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