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Delaware Lawmakers to Ensure Abortion Stays Legal

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Some Delaware lawmakers are moving to make sure that abortion will still be legal in the state even if the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn Roe V. Wade that made it a right.

Still on the books is a Delaware law that would bar abortion except in a few instances but was made moot by the 1973 court decision.

With the possibility that President Trump may appoint enough justices to overturn that ruling State Senator Bryan Townsend says it’s time to make sure that a right to an abortion is legal in the First State.

He told the Wilmington News Journal that the state should have done this long ago.

Twenty members of the General Assembly have signed on to the legislation.

The old Delaware law would only allow abortion in the case of rape, incest, a threat to the life of the mother or if the fetus shows signs of deformities or disabilities.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.