A counter protester holds a sign while standing on the sidewalk at Union Square during a pro-choice rally, on July 10. Many Democrats and abortion-rights supporters believe a new conservative justice could tilt the court in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade. Photo: Julie Jacobson/AP
Will the First Amendment’s separation of church and state save Roe v. Wade?
For decades state legislators committed to the right-to-life doctrine, which affirms that abortion any time from the moment of conception is murder, knowing that as long as Justice Anthony Kennedy was on the Supreme Court the Court would not reverse Roe v. Wade. Instead, they were confined to enacting hundreds of statutes under a smokescreen of rhetoric about protecting women’s health that imposed burdens on women’s access to safe abortions.
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