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<p>In roughly the last year, six states have passed laws to ban abortion at the 20th week after conception. The legislative approaches are different, but the goal is pretty much the same: to get around the 1973 Supreme Court decision that declared a woman’s right to abortion.</p>
<p>We think abortion should be a choice available to all women, paid for by the government if necessary, and without a lot of hypocritical regulations and limitations intended to make it difficult to obtain. But we respect the right-to-life movement as one of the only major interest groups in American politics that is dedicated to promoting interests other than its own. <span class="post-teaser-more">&nbsp;<a href="http://heartsunitedforlife.com/?p=271" title="Permanent Link: Legislative Action" rel="bookmark">Read more...</a> <i>(334 words, estimated 1:20  mins reading time)</i></span></p>

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But we respect the right-to-life movement as one of the only major interest groups in American politics that is dedicated to promoting interests other than its own. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\">&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=271\" title=\"Permanent Link: Legislative Action\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more...<\/a> <i>(334 words, estimated 1:20  mins reading time)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"post-teaser-block\">This is a preview of <q>Legislative Action<\/q>. <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=271\" title=\"Permanent Link: Legislative Action\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the full post (334 words, estimated 1:20  mins reading time)<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Legislative Action - Hearts United For Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heartsunitedforlife.com\/?p=271\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legislative Action - Hearts United For Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; In roughly the last year, six states have passed laws to ban abortion at the 20th week after conception. 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