The U.S. Supreme Court’s latest foray into the fight over reproductive rights will test the views of its two newest justices and challenge the high court’s respect for its prior abortion decisions. Some observers state that the case, June Medical Services v. Gee, which challenges Louisiana’s abortion law, has the potential to be the beginning of the end of the constitutional right to an abortion, or as Justice Stephen Breyer once said in a different context, “death by a thousand cuts.”
At first blush, the case, set for argument in early March, appears to be a rerun of the court’s 2016 case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, and could be quickly resolved based on that earlier decision. The Whole Woman’s Health ruling was a win for abortion rights.
Pro-Choice protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. in the wake of recent legislation passed in Alabama banning abortions, on Tuesday, may 21, 2019.
