This week alone, Alabama passed a law banning women from having an abortion even in cases of incest or rape.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 legalise abortion.
Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky, Iowa and North Dakota have enacted laws banning abortion from the moment a fetal heartbeat is detected, around six weeks of gestation, before most women know they are pregnant. "All the conservative states across the US are testing the limits, they see it's a sympathetic court to the conservatives," Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown Law told AFP.
"We know who put them in the court and why, we know that Trump and Bush are expecting them to vote to overturn Roe. But in the past, presidents have been wrong in their selection," said Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State University.She noted that during his confirmation hearings, Brett Kavanaugh insisted he supported upholding past rulings.
Since December, the justices have put the case on their agenda a dozen times without making a decision either way -- a highly unusual process, Ziegler noted. A.E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia School of Law said such moves make it seem"unlikely" that the court will overturn its 1973 decision."You will see a majority that will increasingly relax the limits they place on the states."
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