What will the future hold?
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the most significant abortion cases in years. |
The court's decision, expected in the summer, will determine whether a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape or incest, can stand. "What's at stake in this case matters to the countless girls and women who have been raped — including those who, like me, were raped by a father, an uncle or another family member," Michele Goodwin wrote. |
Even if the court's decision is not a direct reversal of the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade, the result could be "a rerun of a show Americans have been watching for the past 30 years: a ruling that preserves the right to abortion in name while making the exercise of that right ever more difficult, if not impossible, in practice," The Times's editorial board writes. Many in the abortion rights movement didn't think it would get to this point, leaving some wondering: Where did the movement go wrong? |
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