As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the United States this week, Republica...
WASHINGTON - As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the United States this week, Republicans in Texas and Mississippi sought to further limit abortion access and New Jersey’s Democratic governor refused to declare gun shops an essential service that would stay open.
“It’s hard to imagine more compelling circumstances to restrict someone’s fundamental rights than a deadly epidemic,” said Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. On Wednesday, abortion rights advocates filed a lawsuit accusing Paxton of a “blatant effort to exploit a public health crisis to advance an extreme, anti-abortion agenda.” They said the measure had already led clinics to cancel scores of appointments this week.
Separately, a coalition of anti-abortion groups including National Right to Life and the Family Research Council sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urging that pressure be put on clinics to curb abortions during the pandemic. It also said that after the executive order was issued, state police stopped conducting background checks required for firearms purchases.Gun stores in other states have seen a surge of sales in the pandemic’s early days.
Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Tom Wolf allowed gun stores to reopen on a limited basis after an emergency legal challenge there reached the state Supreme Court amid confusion over which businesses were required to close.
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