Will the US Supreme Court reconsider abortion rights?

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American evangelicals have high hopes that the US Supreme Court, with its newfound conservative majority, will be tempted to chip away at its ...

WASHINGTON: American evangelicals have high hopes that the US Supreme Court, with its newfound conservative majority, will be tempted to chip away at its historic decision to legalize abortion.

All of these laws flagrantly go against Roe v Wade, which guarantees women's rights to abortion as long as the fetus is not viable - around 24 weeks of pregnancy. During the 2016 campaign, Trump secured the evangelical vote that had been initially hesitant to cast ballots for the bombastic, twice-divorced billionaire by promising to appoint anti-abortion justices at the highest court in the land.Since his election, the president has brought two appointees to the high court - Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh - and the progressives are now a minority of four on the nine-person bench.

"Chief Justice John Roberts is very aware of how the public perceives the Supreme Court. He likes the idea that people have respect for the court," said Sherry Colb of Cornell Law School. "They are continuing to kick the can down the road. I don't know what the point of waiting is, sooner or later, if they do want to take it, it starts to push it to 2020," when the next US presidential vote will take place, Ziegler added.

 

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