So far?
Even with the Trump people on the court ?
They have NOT touched the basic Roe vs Wade protections…..
We’ll see….
The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear a case from Mississippi that could undermine Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
The new case, concerning a state law that seeks to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, will give the court’s new 6-to-3 majority its first opportunity to address the subject, and supporters of abortion rights reacted to the development with dismay.
“Alarm bells are ringing loudly about the threat to reproductive rights,” Nancy Northup, the president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in statement. “The Supreme Court just agreed to review an abortion ban that unquestionably violates nearly 50 years of Supreme Court precedent and is a test case to overturn Roe v. Wade.”
The court will hear arguments in the case during its next term, which starts in October. A decision is not expected until the spring or summer of 2022.
The new case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19- 1392, concerns a law enacted by the Republican-dominated Mississippi legislature that banned abortions if “the probable gestational age of the unborn human” was determined to be more than 15 weeks. The statute included narrow exceptions for medical emergencies or “a severe fetal abnormality.”
Lynn Fitch, Mississippi’s attorney general, said her state’s law is constitutional. “The Mississippi Legislature enacted this law consistent with the will of its constituents to promote women’s health and preserve the dignity and sanctity of life,” she said in a statement. “I remain committed to advocating for women and defending Mississippi’s legal right to protect the unborn.”
Last summer, the Supreme Court struck down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law by a 5-to-4 margin, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. providing the decisive vote. His concurring opinion, which expressed respect for precedent but proposed a relatively relaxed standard for evaluating abortion restrictions, signaled an incremental approach to cutting back on abortion rights.
That was before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September. Her replacement by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative who has spoken out against “abortion on demand,” has changed the dynamic at the court, diminishing the chief justice’s power to guide the pace of change.
The court’s decision to hear the Mississippi case, after considering it more than a dozen times at the justices’ private conferences, is an indication of sharp divisions among the court’s conservatives about how boldly to address the constitutional status of abortion rights….
I am not optimistic about this.
Women who want to terminate a pregnancy should not be forced to choose from pills that they can purchase on the internet from foreign countries or by inducing an abortion by performing calisthenics.
So far Z?
The Supreme’s have NOT diluted the basic decision made almost 50 years ago….
Abortions ARE available in each state….
Some have multiple locations…
Some have been worked down to a small few….
The court will NOT ban them outright…
That is NOT what this case is about….
It is just another attempt to walk the court to a final outright ban which is unlikely
The conservative justices don’t need Justice Roberts any more to win. I don’t know if this will be a sweeping decision, but I would not be surprised to see further erosion of abortion rights.
I definitely think there will be a continuing erosion of abortion rights and that is almost as big a deal as simply overruling Roe v Wade.
Pretty soon Roe won’t matter anymore ,particularly in Republican dominated states where yearly legislation has made it almost impossible to get an abortion even though the “right” to do so legally exists.
Further, I wouldn’t totally discount the simple junking of Roe .Indeed I think there is about a 30 or so percent chance they will.
Looked what happened to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (not thrown out altogether, but stripped of US Justice Dept pre-clearance of election changes) and in Citizens United vs FEC.
The court COULD go either way on the abortion case
There HAVE been surprises for rhe right in their rulings
The Miss abortion request to over turn Roe v Wade……
Mississippi’s attorney general told the Supreme Court on Thursday that Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong” and should be overturned as she urged the justices to allow a controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect.
“The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition” Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the justices in a new brief, launching the opening salvo in the most important abortion-related dispute the court has heard in decades.…
CNN Politics
228 Republican lawmakers urge Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade
Scores of congressional Republicans on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade next term when the justices review a restrictive Mississippi abortion law.
The GOP lawmakers, 44 senators and 184 House members, argued in an amicus brief that the landmark 1973 decision in Roe and related rulings represent “a vise grip on abortion politics.”
“Congress and the States have shown that they are ready and able to address the issue in ways that reflect Americans’ varying viewpoints and are grounded in the science of fetal development and maternal health,” wrote the lawmakers, who represent 40 states….
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