Law Analysis How Pro-Abortion District Attorneys Aim to Derail Pro-Life Laws
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In the wake of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade and returning the issue of abortion to the American people and their local elected representatives, a gaggle of leftist district attorneys said they won’t enforce laws enacted to protect the unborn.
Some of those rogue district attorneys are from pro-life states and might attempt to stymie efforts by state legislatures to protect life.
Cully Stimson, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is not surprised, and says that those district attorneys have already refused to enforce other laws, against violence and petty crime, among other things. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
The tactic of not enforcing some of the laws that their state legislatures pass and their governors sign “is not a new play for them,” says Stimson. “So, it’s not surprising that they’re virtue signaling and trying to [capitalize] on the anti-Dobbs hysteria on the left and hold themselves out as defenders of freedom and all the rest of it.”
Worse, there’s no way to get the anti-abortion laws enforced if the rogue district attorneys decide they won’t cooperate.
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