News Analysis: Supreme Court is emboldened, conservative and ready to push further right
2 years, 5 months ago

News Analysis: Supreme Court is emboldened, conservative and ready to push further right

LA Times  

Abortion rights advocates gather outside the Supreme Court on Friday to protest its decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. It’s difficult to think of a decision that’s more personal or important to a pregnant woman than whether or not she will bear a child.” Once Powell had spoken, it was clear there was a majority within the court to rule that women had a right to choose abortion. The Roe decision was “egregiously wrong” from the start, he said, because the 14th Amendment’s protection for liberty and equality in 1868 cannot be understood to have created a right to abortion. He said the court’s precedents make clear women have a “right to choose” abortion, and that means they should have a “reasonable opportunity to choose.” By 15 weeks, women have known they are pregnant, he said, so the right “need not extend any further.” His proposal could have led to a moderate-conservative ruling that is in line with public opinion. In more recent decades, gun rights advocates pushed a different interpretation that focused on the amendment’s closing words that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” In 2008, the court in a 5-4 decision adopted that reasoning and ruled the 2nd Amendment protects an individual’s right to be armed for self-defense.

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Unlikely Supreme Court justice could be liberal's best hope as Trump takes power: analysis
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Unlikely Supreme Court justice could be liberal's best hope as Trump takes power: analysis

Raw Story  

Watchers of the Supreme Court have a grim outlook on the right flank's ability to decide cases fairly and independently with a new Donald Trump administration coming in — particularly given that many suspect it played its own role in helping Trump win. In particular, Biskupic wrote, "Her views of executive power, as in Donald Trump’s immunity case last July, …

Column: A reminder that the GOP used to be the pro-abortion party, and Democrats the anti party
2 months ago

Column: A reminder that the GOP used to be the pro-abortion party, and Democrats the anti party

LA Times  

Vice President Kamala Harris speaking to promote women’s reproductive rights in San Jose in January, before she became the Democratic nominee for president and made those rights a centerpiece of her campaign. Here are the landmarks: In the decades prior to Roe vs. Wade, abortion was broadly illegal in the U.S. Women seeking abortions for their physical and psychological health …

Right-winger who helped shape Supreme Court howls over Biden proposals to reform it
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Right-winger who helped shape Supreme Court howls over Biden proposals to reform it

Raw Story  

The right-wing activist who helped shape the U.S. Supreme Court objected to President Joe Biden's three proposals for reform Monday. The president called for Congress to pass a constitutional amendment that would undo the court's ruling on Donald Trump's immunity claims, limit justices' terms to 18 years and impose binding ethics rules to address the erosion of public trust in …

Amy Coney Barrett seen again to break ranks with Supreme Court conservatives: experts
6 months ago

Amy Coney Barrett seen again to break ranks with Supreme Court conservatives: experts

Raw Story  

After the last few Supreme Court decisions, legal analysts wonder if one of the conservative justices is beginning to turn more moderate on some issues. In a case involving whether those with a history of domestic violence can keep guns, Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberal justices on the High Court. Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Politico legal …

'Fighting words': Amy Coney Barrett signals court rift with swipe at Clarence Thomas
6 months ago

'Fighting words': Amy Coney Barrett signals court rift with swipe at Clarence Thomas

Raw Story  

The last of former President Donald Trump's three Supreme Court appointees appears to be on a collision course with far-right Justice Clarence Thomas — and it could have implications for some upcoming hot-button cases. According to Politico, the conservative Barrett, whose history of involvement with religious extremists was a huge point of controversy when she was nominated for the court …

Column: The Supreme Court’s role in our partisan polarization has been greatly exaggerated
6 months ago

Column: The Supreme Court’s role in our partisan polarization has been greatly exaggerated

LA Times  

A makeshift memorial for victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017. As legal analyst Sarah Isgur and economist Dean Jens recently put it in Politico, “If one defines ‘important’ as the most politically divisive, then it becomes circular.” Which cases are divisive? If you listened closely, you could almost hear throngs of pro-abortion-rights court critics whispering, “Never mind.” …

Supreme Court upholds FDA’s approval of abortion pills for early pregnancies
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court upholds FDA’s approval of abortion pills for early pregnancies

LA Times  

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a conservative Christian group’s claim that the abortion medication used by more than 5 million American women is unsafe and should be withdrawn from the market. “The plaintiffs have sincere legal, moral, ideological, and policy objections to elective abortion and to FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone,” Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote for the unanimous …

Opinion: Supreme Court's conservatives unplugged, unrepentant
7 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Supreme Court's conservatives unplugged, unrepentant

LA Times  

It’s that time of year when the life-tenured denizens of America’s imperial court, otherwise known as the Supreme Court, come down from their bench to mix with the masses. Samuel A. Alito Jr., one of the court’s six Catholics, was commencement speaker at “passionately Catholic” Franciscan University of Steubenville, in Ohio. Kavanaugh defensively suggested that the unpopular court’s unpopular decisions …

Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over emergency abortions
8 months ago

Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over emergency abortions

CNN  

CNN — In a Supreme Court hearing on the Biden administration’s challenge to aspects of Idaho’s strict abortion ban, US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar sought to appeal to conservative justices who just two years ago ruled that states should have the ability to prohibit the procedure. As Turner danced around the “difficult” and “tough” situation her question as posing, she …

News Analysis: Supreme Court has right and far-right wings. Their justices might not be those you’d guess
8 months, 3 weeks ago

News Analysis: Supreme Court has right and far-right wings. Their justices might not be those you’d guess

LA Times  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. repeatedly suggested during an oral argument that government officials could use a 19th century law to ban the distribution of abortion pills through the mail. Politics Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas doctors’ challenge to abortion pills Supreme Court justices question whether a group of Texas doctors had legal standing to sue …

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dust off 150-year-old Comstock Act to target abortion rights
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dust off 150-year-old Comstock Act to target abortion rights

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Comstock Act of 1873 targeted the mailing …

Ending Roe v. Wade May Have Had the Opposite Effect That Conservatives Had Hoped For
1 year, 1 month ago

Ending Roe v. Wade May Have Had the Opposite Effect That Conservatives Had Hoped For

Slate  

On Tuesday, Ohio voters passed a ballot measure enshrining the right to an abortion in the state constitution, joining several states where voters have responded to the end of Roe v. Wade by protecting reproductive rights via popular referendum. To many observers’ surprise, two recent studies reveal that national abortion numbers have actually slightly increased since the Supreme Court ended …

The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl
1 year, 2 months ago

The Supreme Court will take up abortion and gun cases in its new term while ethics concerns swirl

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is returning to a new term to take up some familiar topics — guns and abortion — and concerns about ethics swirling around the justices. “I can’t remember a term where the court was poised to say so much about the power of federal administrative agencies,” said Jeffrey Wall, who served as the deputy solicitor …

Expanding the Supreme Court is a longshot. Why California’s Senate candidates support it
1 year, 4 months ago

Expanding the Supreme Court is a longshot. Why California’s Senate candidates support it

LA Times  

It’s been just over a year since the Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, allowing states to once again outlaw abortion. “This issue has a particular power and salience now, both because of the gamesmanship that McConnell used but also because of the succession of reactionary cases coming out of the court — striking down Roe …

Supreme Court’s conservatives are solidly in control, but not quite as predictable as last year
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court’s conservatives are solidly in control, but not quite as predictable as last year

LA Times  

The Supreme Court justices see themselves as guided by law, not politics. The Supreme Court’s conservatives were solidly in control as they ended this year’s term with major rulings against college affirmative action and President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan while upholding a Christian web designer’s right to refuse work involving gay marriages. And they steered away from what Justice …

‘Grave concerns’: House Democrats urge Chief Justice John Roberts to formally investigate Clarence Thomas
1 year, 5 months ago

‘Grave concerns’: House Democrats urge Chief Justice John Roberts to formally investigate Clarence Thomas

Raw Story  

Eighteen House Democrats, all former prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement officials, have sent a detailed, eight-page letter to Chief Justice John Roberts urging him to create an independent group to investigate Justice Clarence Thomas over "recent allegations of ethical violations and conflicts of interests" involving his relationship with a billionaire GOP donor who reportedly had business before the Supreme Court. …

One year later, the Supreme Court's abortion decision is both scorned and praised
1 year, 5 months ago

One year later, the Supreme Court's abortion decision is both scorned and praised

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a statement, President Joe Biden pledged to protect access and decried the court's …

US Supreme Court upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone
1 year, 8 months ago

US Supreme Court upholds access to abortion pill mifepristone

Al Jazeera  

The ruling preserves broad access to mifepristone, while litigation continues over the pill’s approval for US use. “But let’s be clear – the American people must continue to use their vote as their voice, and elect a Congress who will pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v Wade,” Biden added, citing a landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that …

Obstetrician appeals decision over Arizona abortion law
1 year, 9 months ago

Obstetrician appeals decision over Arizona abortion law

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — The medical director of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in metro Phoenix has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision that concluded abortion doctors couldn’t be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that bans the procedure in nearly all cases. In late December, the Arizona Court of Appeals said it wasn’t viewing the pre-statehood law in isolation …

Kavanaugh touts 'great relations' among Court justices despite 'obvious departure from collegiality'
1 year, 10 months ago

Kavanaugh touts 'great relations' among Court justices despite 'obvious departure from collegiality'

Raw Story  

In the past, U.S. Supreme Court justices often had radically different views yet managed to disagree without being disagreeable. In an article published by NBC News’ website on January 27, Hurley explains, “Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the Supreme Court is not as divided as members of the public might think, praising his liberal colleagues and highlighting rulings in which …

‘Here again': Abortion activists rally 50 years after Roe
1 year, 11 months ago

‘Here again': Abortion activists rally 50 years after Roe

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — From beach cities to snow-covered streets, abortion supporters rallied by the thousands on Sunday to demand protections for reproductive rights and mark the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision that established federal protections for the procedure. The Women’s March, galvanized during Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017 amid a national reckoning …

Women's marches to draw thousands on 50th anniversary of Roe
1 year, 11 months ago

Women's marches to draw thousands on 50th anniversary of Roe

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Women’s marches demanding the protection of abortion rights are set …

Supreme Court justices are showing their willingness to boost conservative causes
1 year, 11 months ago

Supreme Court justices are showing their willingness to boost conservative causes

CNN  

CNN — The Supreme Court’s reversal of abortion rights last year deviated so much from traditional decision-making that it might have soon appeared an aberration. “We are a court of law, not policymakers,” Justice Neil Gorsuch admonished his colleagues in late December, as he dissented from the majority’s latest incursion on immigration policy at the southern border. No split existed …

Abortion ruling intensifies fight over state supreme courts
2 years, 2 months ago

Abortion ruling intensifies fight over state supreme courts

Associated Press  

Surrounded by states with abortion bans that took effect after Roe v. Wade fell, Illinois is one of the few places where the procedure remains legal in the Midwest. After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe, state judicial races have become even more important for Democratic groups working to protect abortion rights. The races’ importance was underscored recently when …

Chief Justice John Roberts defends legitimacy of court
2 years, 3 months ago

Chief Justice John Roberts defends legitimacy of court

Associated Press  

DENVER — Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions. When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said …

Chief Justice John Roberts defends the Supreme Court — as people's confidence wavers
2 years, 3 months ago

Chief Justice John Roberts defends the Supreme Court — as people's confidence wavers

NPR  

Chief Justice John Roberts defends the Supreme Court — as people's confidence wavers Enlarge this image toggle caption Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP DENVER — Chief Justice John Roberts defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because …

Democrats Are Using An Old Playbook To Attack The Supreme Court And Fracture The Conservative Coalition
2 years, 4 months ago

Democrats Are Using An Old Playbook To Attack The Supreme Court And Fracture The Conservative Coalition

Huff Post  

On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Roe v. Wade that women have a federal right to an abortion. The Supreme Court’s political role in these majority coalitions is “to confer legitimacy” on both “the particular and parochial policies of the dominant political alliance” and “the basic patterns of behavior required for the operation of …

The force of the Supreme Court’s right turn has shaken the country
2 years, 5 months ago

The force of the Supreme Court’s right turn has shaken the country

CNN  

CNN — The Supreme Court reached into every corner of American life, reordering intimate family choices, breaching the separation of church and state, and diminishing the steps government can take to prevent gun violence or protect the environment. “After today’s decision, the nine Members of this Court will no longer decide the basic legality of pre-viability abortion for all 330 …

Not just guns and abortion: How US top court could reshape rules
2 years, 5 months ago

Not just guns and abortion: How US top court could reshape rules

Al Jazeera  

The conservative majority on the US Supreme Court boldly used its powers this past term to advance right-wing positions. The US Supreme Court’s most consequential term in decades, with blockbuster rulings on abortion, guns, religion and climate change policy, illustrated how its expanded conservative majority is willing to boldly use its power with far-reaching impacts on American society. Democratic President …

One man's outsized role in shaping the Supreme Court and overturning Roe
2 years, 5 months ago

One man's outsized role in shaping the Supreme Court and overturning Roe

NPR  

One man's outsized role in shaping the Supreme Court and overturning Roe Enlarge this image toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Carolyn Kaster/AP Last Friday morning, life in America changed dramatically when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned half a century of the federal right to an abortion. Sponsor Message "No one has been more dedicated to the enterprise of building a Supreme …

Column: The GOP may rue the day Roe was overturned
2 years, 5 months ago

Column: The GOP may rue the day Roe was overturned

LA Times  

In overturning Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court delivered the right’s biggest single victory ever and it may spell the end of the conservative movement as we’ve known it. While nearly everyone invoked the “sanctity of life,” as a policy matter, many argued merely for overturning Roe either to fix a jurisprudential error or to send the issue back to …

Elizabeth Warren says Supreme Court ‘burned whatever legitimacy they had’
2 years, 5 months ago

Elizabeth Warren says Supreme Court ‘burned whatever legitimacy they had’

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Senator Elizabeth Warren has lashed out at the Supreme Court …

Roe v. Wade outrage highlights growing rift between the American people and the Supreme Court
2 years, 5 months ago

Roe v. Wade outrage highlights growing rift between the American people and the Supreme Court

CNN  

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. Abortion rights activists across the country are meeting the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade with a blitz of dissent. Consider this: Most Americans disapprove of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll conducted Friday and Saturday in the …

Regressive, inhumane: The Hindu Editorial on the U.S. Supreme Court removing right to abortion
2 years, 5 months ago

Regressive, inhumane: The Hindu Editorial on the U.S. Supreme Court removing right to abortion

The Hindu  

When a democracy rolls back a constitutional right that has been in place for almost half a century, it must consider itself in deep peril. The U.S. stands at that fraught juncture now, after its Supreme Court, in a 6-3 majority, overturned the 1973 ruling in Roe vs Wade, and took away the constitutional right to abortion. With Roe, as …

Endangered GOP lawmakers fleeing questions about destruction of Roe v. Wade: report
2 years, 5 months ago

Endangered GOP lawmakers fleeing questions about destruction of Roe v. Wade: report

Raw Story  

GOP lawmakers already facing an uphill battle as they seek re-election in November are now finding that their campaigns are being hampered by questions about their party's part in getting Roe v. Wade overturned by the conservative Supreme Court. According to a report from Politico's Sarah Farris and Sally Mutnick, with most Republicans across the board praising the controversial ruling …

As Senate-confirmed justices end Roe, how will voters react?
2 years, 5 months ago

As Senate-confirmed justices end Roe, how will voters react?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The end of Roe v. Wade started in the Senate. It was the Senate Republican partnership with President Donald Trump to confirm conservative judges, and transform the federal judiciary, that paved the way for the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell set the strategy in motion, engineering the …

Supreme Court Conservatives Flex Muscle In Sweeping Rulings
2 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court Conservatives Flex Muscle In Sweeping Rulings

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s sweeping rulings on guns and abortion sent an unmistakable message. The decisions in the blockbuster cases on consecutive days were the latest and perhaps clearest manifestation of how the court has evolved over the past six years — a product of historical accident and Republican political brute force — from an institution …

Chief Justice John Roberts lost the Supreme Court and the defining case of his generation
2 years, 5 months ago

Chief Justice John Roberts lost the Supreme Court and the defining case of his generation

CNN  

CNN — Chief Justice John Roberts has long piloted America’s highest court, securing majorities on controversies over religion, race, voting rights and campaign finance regulation. In doing so, they wrote, “this Court betrays its guiding principles.” They said they felt sorrow for the court itself although more “for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental …

6 political questions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
2 years, 5 months ago

6 political questions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

NPR  

6 political questions after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Enlarge this image toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images It's hard to overstate the importance of what the Supreme Court did Friday with its outright overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that made abortion legal in this country nearly 50 years ago. "It's the legal …

Column: A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Supreme Court decision
2 years, 5 months ago

Column: A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Supreme Court decision

LA Times  

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is a double disaster. It is another deep distortion to say, as the Dobbs opinion does, that Roe, and the later decision Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, inadequately protected “potential life.” Both decisions placed substantial weight — many would argue excessive weight — on fetal safeguards. Alito derides Casey’s admittedly …

Protesters at U.S. Supreme Court decry abortion ruling overturning Roe v. Wade
2 years, 5 months ago

Protesters at U.S. Supreme Court decry abortion ruling overturning Roe v. Wade

The Hindu  

Hundreds of protesters descended on the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday to denounce the justice’s decision to overturn the half-century-old Roe v. Wade precedent that recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion. The crowd featured both abortion opponents wearing T-shirts reading “I am the Pro-Life Generation” and abortion rights supporters chanting “my body, my choice.” “The Supreme Court has made some …

What GOP-named justices had said about Roe to Senate panel
2 years, 5 months ago

What GOP-named justices had said about Roe to Senate panel

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The nine justices of the Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling Friday, made clear their views on abortion, with the conservative majority overturning the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women’s constitutional protections for abortion. ___ BRETT KAVANAUGH, 2018: It was Feinstein who also asked Kavanaugh, “What would you say your position today is on …

Supreme Court conservatives flex muscle in sweeping rulings
2 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court conservatives flex muscle in sweeping rulings

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s sweeping rulings on guns and abortion sent an unmistakable message. The decisions in the blockbuster cases on consecutive days were the latest and perhaps clearest manifestation of how the court has evolved over the past six years — a product of historical accident and Republican political brute force — from an institution that leaned right, …

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Iconic Speech For Abortion Rights Resurfaces After Roe vs Wade
2 years, 5 months ago

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Iconic Speech For Abortion Rights Resurfaces After Roe vs Wade

News 18  

Late US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy is being questioned on social media after the overturning of Roe vs Wade. “This is something central to a woman’s life, to her dignity… When government controls that decision for her, she’s being treated as less than a fully adult human,” Ginsburg can be heard saying during her Supreme Court confirmation …

Will Overturning Of Roe Spell The End Of Same-Sex Marriages, Right To Contraception In US
2 years, 5 months ago

Will Overturning Of Roe Spell The End Of Same-Sex Marriages, Right To Contraception In US

News 18  

The US Supreme Court’s decision erasing the constitutional right to abortion provides a roadmap to end other freedoms involving marriage, sexuality and birth control, its three liberal members said on Friday, while conservative Justice Clarence Thomas urged the court to take just that path. In future cases, Thomas said, “we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents,” …

Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
2 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion, a fundamental and deeply personal change for Americans’ lives after nearly a half-century under Roe v. Wade. At the White House, Biden said, “It’s a sad day for the court and for the country.” He urged voters to make it a defining issue in the November …

Analysis: Reversal of Roe v. Wade is stunning moment that will reshape American politics
2 years, 5 months ago

Analysis: Reversal of Roe v. Wade is stunning moment that will reshape American politics

CNN  

CNN — The day that remade America was decades in the making. The Supreme Court’s overturning of a woman’s right to an abortion on Friday was a legal, political and societal thunderbolt that merits the overused term “historic” because it will change life in multiple ways, many still unknown. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who did as much as any …

United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, erasing constitutional right to abortion
2 years, 5 months ago

United States Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade, erasing constitutional right to abortion

ABC  

The United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 decision which recognised Americans' constitutional right to abortion and legalised it nationwide, handing a momentous victory to Republicans and religious conservatives who want to limit or ban the procedure. The Supreme Court in a 1992 ruling called Planned Parenthood of South-Eastern Pennsylvania v Casey reaffirmed abortion rights …

With Roe over, some fear rollback of LGBTQ and other rights
2 years, 5 months ago

With Roe over, some fear rollback of LGBTQ and other rights

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to ban abortion stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry. “It really is much more extreme than the justices are making it out to be.” He added: …

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