Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Wednesday, August 4th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

If anyone thought the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade settled the issue of abortion in America,

today's headlines should convince them that

the battle has actually just begun. On Tuesday, Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that

would have allowed the Republican-controlled legislature to tighten restrictions on abortion

or ban the procedure outright. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has signed into law a measure establishing abortion

as a constitutional right in his state.

The Justice Department is suing Idaho over that state's abortion restrictions.

President Biden signed an executive order yesterday intended to make it easier for women seeking abortions

to travel between states to obtain access to the procedure.

When the Dobbs decision was handed down in June, like many who responded to the decision,

I noted that the battle would now move to the states, and so it has.

However, I did not foresee a world in which cities and towns

within states would take steps to counter abortion rulings made by their state legislatures.

For example, a city council committee in Dallas, Texas, unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday

to protect abortion rights in the city by prohibiting the use of city funds to investigate people who get the procedure.

Austin has approved similar legislation, calling guarding the right to abortion care for everyone, known ironically and tragically as an acronym, the Grace Act. No matter what steps the state of Texas

takes to regulate abortion, these cities intend to not enforce them. Once again, we see how the

1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion continues to divide and polarize our country.

George F. Will rightly noted that the ruling inflamed the issue and embittered our politics,

concluding, thus did the Supreme Court diminish American democracy.

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