Anti-Choice State Lawmakers Want to Criminalize Abortion Through Nullification
States have largely relied on nullification to uphold white supremacist and patriarchal systems.

Mar 9, 2020
Jessica Madris

Since the start of the new year, anti-choice state legislators have introduced bills to abolish abortion in their states by invalidating—or nullifying—federal law. If the decades since Roe v. Wade were about chiseling away at abortion access, these bills are now going for the jugular.

Meanwhile, some Republican lawmakers are attempting to criminalize abortion in their states—domestic terrorist Washington Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane Valley) and Idaho Rep. Heather Scott (R-Blanchard), who has defended white nationalists, are trying for the second time—by combining fetal personhood with the Confederate-era theory of nullification.

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