The United States Supreme Court has agreed to consider a major rollback of abortion rights, saying it will decide whether states can ban abortions before a foetus can survive outside the womb.
The court’s order on Monday sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the fall (from September), with a more conservative court seemingly ready to dramatically alter nearly 50 years of rulings on abortion rights.
The court first announced a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion in the 1973 Roe v Wade decision and reaffirmed it 19 years later.
The abortion-rights advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America called the court’s decision “a direct challenge to Roe v Wade, opening the door for this majority-conservative, anti-choice (Supreme Court) to overthrow Roe.”
Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court’s most recent additions, like their conservative brethren, are no friends to abortion rights.
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The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will reconsider part of
Roe v. Wade in its fall term, setting the stage for a major ruling to curtail access to legal abortion throughout America. The justices have not heard a direct challenge to
Roe since a troika of moderates saved its central holdings in
Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992. Now the court’s moderates are all gone, and the only thing that can stop the conservatives from demolishing
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A bill that would effectively ban most abortions in Texas by outlawing the procedure once a fetal heartbeat can be detected received final approval from state lawmakers on Thursday and is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott s desk. He has said he will sign it into law.
The proposal is a priority for Republican lawmakers, and it sailed to passage despite intense opposition from many Democrats. It is widely considered among the most restrictive abortion measures ever proposed in Texas. The Texas Legislature PASSES the heartbeat bill, Abbott wrote Thursday on Twitter. It s now on its way to my desk for signing.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
This past Sunday was Mother’s Day, but some on the woke far left in the latest example of their reflexive, mindless pander to the transgender lobby have taken to calling mothers by the gender-neutral term “birthing people.”
Now, even some woke Democrats in Congress have begun using “birthing people” in lieu of “mothers,” as an indulgence to transgender men, who are in fact biological women. (Obviously, it doesn’t apply to transgender women, who are biological men and who by definition can’t give birth or be mothers.)
“I sit before you today as a single mom and I am committed to doing the absolute most to protect black mothers, to protect black babies, to protect black birthing people,” said Rep. Cori Bush, Missouri Democrat, recounting her experience with two difficult pregnancies, at a May 6 hearing of the House Oversight and Reform Committee examining what it called “America’s black maternal health crisis.”