Progress: Dozens of Pro-Life Bills Passed in States in 2015

By Published on July 10, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – For the fifth year in a row, pro-life laws are continuing to be signed in large numbers at the state level.

According to a new report by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, 51 pro-life laws have been passed at the state level — 19 fewer than in 2013, but helping to create a total of 282 state laws since 2010 that protect life.

Americans United for Life Communications Director Kristi Hamrick said that while her organization counts the numbers differently – “Guttmacher counts each component of the law[s],” she told LifeSiteNews, while “AUL counts the law” as the sum of its parts – the state trend is undeniably pro-life.

Americans United for Life’s attorney and Vice President of Legal Affairs, Denise Burke, told LifeSiteNews that AUL has counted 30 “pro-life, abortion-related laws” in 2015, and that 239 laws had been enacted since 2010.

“Each year since 2010, we have seen a higher number of life-affirming, abortion-related laws enacted” compared to 2010, said Burke.

That year, which saw Republicans take the U.S. House and state legislatures across the country, 29 laws were enacted. The lowest year since was 2012, with 38 laws, and the number of laws peaked at 70 in 2011.

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