According toobtained by Politico, the U.S. Supreme Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade, reversing nearly 50 years of constitutional protection for abortion, and let states set their own restrictions on the procedure.
The case before the U.S. Supreme Court centers on a ban in Mississippi on abortions after 15 weeks. Since the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, the court has consistently struck down bans on abortion before viability, the point at which a fetus could likely survive outside the womb, usually seen as 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy. The 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld Roe v.
This draft does not change anything about the legal status of abortion in Texas at this moment. The state hasof pregnancy through a unique civil enforcement mechanism that has, so far, withstood judicial review. Abortion opponents in Texas are cautiously optimistic about the release of this draft ruling. Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, said it’s “encouraging,” but he’s still holding his breath.In 1992, then-Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative, had indicated that he was going to vote with the majority of the court to overturn Roe in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
, an abortion advocacy research group, that would mean the average Texan would have to drive 525 miles, each way, to obtain an abortion.
We stand already DoNotDespair RoeVsWade
This is always how this was going to go, as soon as those judges were confirmed, this was the forgone conclusion. Next will be contraceptives and gay marriage. This has always been McConnell's plan from the beginning.
dakota_girl495 Oh and the coup doesn't mean Americans are trying to overthrow The United States of America even if it means violent deadly attacks against fellow citizens. 🙄
Striking Roe down has been the wet dream for decades, close to certainty this is the way it will land. Get ready cuz it won’t be the last thing either...
But based on the oral arguments of the case in December, Sepper said it wasn't surprising to see several of the justices endorsing this full-throated rejection of Roe v. Wade.
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