It’s a ban that even supporters acknowledge will be hard to enforce. Yet 2021 has been a breakthrough year for legislation in several states seeking to prohibit abortions based solely on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
Governors in Arizona and South Dakota recently signed such bills into law, and similar measures are pending in North Carolina and Texas.
Most significantly, a federal appellate court said Ohio could begin to implement a 2017 law that has been on hold. Although that ruling by the 6th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals conflicted with other federal court decisions, anti-abortion activists say it increases the chances that the U.S.