Determine whether the author of this op-ed supports or opposes new abortion laws based on the following excerpt:

The South Carolina House once again passed a ban on abortion at six weeks, before many know they are pregnant, setting up a clash in the state Senate, where five female lawmakers had previously mounted a successful filibuster (the state Supreme Court had struck down a virtually identical law last year, but since the court’s composition changed, Republicans are betting that the new court will reverse course). And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, one of the likely frontrunners for the 2024 GOP nomination, signed into law another six-week ban with narrow exceptions (the state’s ultraconservative Supreme Court is expected to overturn existing precedent and allow the law to go into effect).

For those seeking abortions, or women experiencing life-threatening conditions that may not fit narrow exceptions to abortion bans, the closest option in the South may be Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is pushing for a ban at 15 weeks, or Washington, DC.

With travel becoming prohibitively expensive and often complex, this region — known for the nation’s worst maternal mortality rates — will almost certainly be an even more dangerous place to be pregnant. For some, it comes as no surprise that the South would define itself as an anti-abortion region. But in reality its status as the center of anti-abortion America was not historically inevitable.
The author opposes the new abortion laws. This is because of the sentence, "With travel becoming prohibitively expensive and often complex, this region — known for the nation’s worst maternal mortality rates — will almost certainly be an even more dangerous place to be pregnant." This shows that the author believes that these new laws are harmful to women and are therefore bad.