Court s decision to take up abortion case brings issue front and center
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington May 13, 2021. (Credit: Andrew Kelly/Reuters via CNS.)
When the Supreme Court decided May 17 to take up a challenge to a Mississippi abortion law, it brought abortion back to the front burner months before the court will hear oral arguments about it this fall.
WASHINGTON, D.C. When the Supreme Court decided May 17 to take up a challenge to a Mississippi abortion law, it brought abortion back to the front burner months before the court will hear oral arguments about it this fall.
US court s decision to take up case puts abortion on front burner
Besides Mississippi, 15 other states have tried to ban abortions before viability, but they have been blocked in court
Updated: May 22, 2021 06:02 AM GMT
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The US Supreme Court building in Washington, DC. (Photo: Daniel Slim/AFP)
When the US Supreme Court decided May 17 to take up a challenge to a Mississippi abortion law, it brought abortion back to the front burner months before the court will hear oral arguments about it this fall.
The court s announcement was not unexpected. For months, people on both sides of the issue have been wondering when the court would take up the Mississippi appeal and speculating about why there was a delay.
The Supreme Court Is Not the National Abortion Control Board
Pro-life conservatives were disappointed last year when thanks to Bush appointee John Roberts the Supreme Court, by a vote of 5-4, in the case of
June Medical Services LLC v. Russo, ruled that a Louisiana law requiring physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital was unconstitutional. These conservatives don’t mind if the Supreme Court functions as the national abortion control board as long as it rules in favor of restrictions on abortion.
The phrase comes from the dissenting opinion of Justice Byron White, joined by William Rehnquist and Chief Justice Warren Burger, in the case of
The Democratic partys horrific abortion platform
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February 9, 2021
Last week, 48 Democrats voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which if passed would require doctors to provide medical life-saving care to babies that survive abortion. The bill needed 60 votes for passage and was first introduced by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) in 2015. The bill is not about abortion. It is about saving babies already born as the result of botched abortions.
This is not the first time Senate Democrats derailed the bill that saves the lives of born babies, having voted it down in 2019. Now, they have done it again. The only two Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against this barbarism were Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA). Keep in mind that senators know in advance whether a particular bill will fail. The vote should have been 100 0.