According to the A.C.L.U., since January almost a hundred bills have been introduced in state legislatures to chip away at last year's marriage-equality ruling.
Anti-choice state legislatures are chipping away at abortion access from all angles, and the Senate is trying to push through a health care repeal bill that would gut Medicaid and penalize people for buying insurance plans that cover abortion.
Missouri's anti-choice legislature, in consistently chipping away at reproductive rights (introducing more than 70 anti-abortion bills since 2013), has taken a decidedly different approach in attacking reproductive health access.
Democrats and many voting rights groups claim the crush of new voting laws across the country, passed primarily by Republican-led legislatures, are designed to chip away at key Democratic voting blocs, including blacks, Latinos and the elderly.
Their purpose, says the pro-abortion camp, is ultimately to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal in America.For years, various state legislatures have been chipping away at Roe v Wade by passing laws that make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions.
In Connecticut, where Gov. M. Jodi Rell, a Republican, was among dozens of governors urging Mr. Bush not to veto the S-Chip legislation, the legislature has already financed coverage of 17,000 children for the next two years; 3,750 of them now are not qualified under the new rules, officials said.
While a number of legislatures have been quietly chipping away at Roe v. Wade the 1973 Supreme Court decision that forces states to keep abortion legal in the first trimester of pregnancy some are taking a more direct hit at the legal precedent.
Now, as Ohio's legislature moves toward final approval of a bill that would chip away at public-sector unions, those workers say they see it as the opening bell in a race to the bottom.
The governor is looking to chip away at Democrats' supermajority in the state legislature.
In Kansas, where polls show to be leaning in favor of Romney, the main goal of College Democrats has been to chip away at the Tea Party majority in the state legislature.
