A major pro-life group immediately used Monday’s Supreme Court decision to strike down a Texas abortion law as an example of why the 2016 election is so important.
“The stakes for the 2016 election could not be higher,” said Majorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony’s List in a statement.
The statement was in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt on Monday. The court voted 5-3 that a Texas 2013 law violated the Constitution because it placed an undue burden on women getting an abortion.
The law required abortion clinics to meet ambulatory surgical center requirements and doctors to get admitting privileges at a local hospital.
Dannenfelser said the next president will be “tasked with selecting Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement and up to three others. We must elect a pro-life president and safeguard today’s pro-life majorities in the House and Senate.”
She added that the abortion industry can’t be trusted to regulate itself and “they know it. That’s why they fought tooth and nail against common-sense health and safety standards and requirements.”
Pro-choice groups said those restrictions were veiled attempts to prevent access to abortions.
