Though the end of Roe v Wade would not come as a shock, the repercussions will be momentous
in 1973, women in America have had a legal right to abortion—even if lawmakers in many conservative states have done their best to prevent them from exercising it. On May 2nd came the clearest sign yet thatwhen the Supreme Court rules on an abortion case from Mississippi,The opinion, published in Politico, a politics website, and written by Samuel Alito, a conservative justice, describesas “egregiously wrong from the start” and says it “must be overruled”.
News of the opinion was greeted with jubilation and horror by activists on either side of America’s long-running abortion war. “Today is a day for courage and hope”, tweeted Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion organisation. Within hours abortion-rights protesters had gathered outside the Supreme Court. Some wept; others swore through a megaphone at Justice Alito. Nancy Northup, the president of the Centre for Reproductive Rights, said overturningYet it would not come as a shock.
protects the right to abortion until a fetus is viable, around 24 weeks, upholding Mississippi's law would mean overturning or substantially weakening. Since then, the court’s repeated failure to block a law in Texas that bans abortions from around six weeks of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape or incest, has indicated that the conservative justices do not considergoes it will be up to the states to legislate abortion, just as it was before 1973.
For women in conservative states, the effects will be dreadful. Restrictions designed to make it hard for abortion clinics to operate already mean many women have to
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