The Supreme Court said Friday it won’t review a lower court decision blocking an Alabama law that effectively banned abortions after 15 weeks.
The Alabama law — which prohibits a method of abortion that is typically the only method available for pregnancies after 15 weeks — was passed in 2016. But since then a wave of even more aggressive bans were passed by states who saw Justice Anthony Kennedy’s departure from the court in 2018 as an opportunity to roll back the right to the procedure.
So far, the Supreme Court has declined to jump into the most contentious abortion cases since Kennedy’s exit, but in a concurrence Friday Justice Clarence Thomas signaled his desire to overturn previous decisions protecting abortion rights.
The chipping away of Roe vs. Wade begins.
Of course he did. The most incompetent jurist of the last 100 years needs to do as much damage as possible before he kicks his last RV tire.
? Them rejecting this means that the lower court decision blocking the ban remains in place (i.e. that the law can’t take effect, there’s a lot of double-negatives here…)
Yes, but the narrative is that the Court will overturn Wade the minute it’s able to do so. No matter what, you can’t get the media to do a really proper analysis of it. They immediately default to that assumption.
So, I guess Roberts is chickening out on overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2020, but wants to wait an extra year to avoid the blue tsunami which would surely follow that ruling?