By Kathy Gregg, March 2, 2019 || The Roman Catholic bishop of Providence, the Rhode Island Right to Life Committee and the chairman of the state GOP mounted a strenuous campaign on Saturday to head off a vote Tuesday on the latest version of a bill to keep abortion legal in the state, no matter what a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court might do to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.
“This is a blatant disregard for the facts,” tweeted the abortion-rights advocacy group known as The Womxn Project. Contrary to what anti-abortion groups say, the legislation would “codify Roe, remove unconstitutional laws, protect individual right to abortion until viability, provide medical options [including] abortion after viability to save a woman’s life or health — that’s it. #repro4RI”
