In January and February, as the country continued to grapple with the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, state lawmakers introduced 384 anti-abortion bills, according to an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute.

The sheer number of bills targeting abortion access so far in 2021 is notable. In the past decade, only one other year 2017 saw a comparable level of legislative action in the first two months of the year.

Despite the historic challenges facing state legislatures, including a pandemic and economic recession, anti-abortion policymakers are instead focusing scarce time and resources on restricting abortion rights, said Elizabeth Nash, associate director of state issues and author of the report, in a statement.

In Tennessee, for example, state lawmakers introduced a measure that would allow a man who gets a woman pregnant to request an injunction barring her from obtaining an abortion.

Eight abortion restrictions have already been enacted, including a measure in South Carolina that bans abortion after 6 weeks pregnancy , which is before many women know they are pregnant. The law has been temporarily blocked in court.