Our writers offer some answers to urgent questions following the Supreme Court’s decision.
The ruling is expected to create a stark divide within the country, with residents of more liberal states retaining the right to abortion and those in conservative states largely losing it. Abortion will be immediately illegal or severely restricted in as many as twenty states, affecting an estimated twenty-five million women of childbearing age.
. The decision could also kick off further political activism from the right. The ruling marks “the culmination of a half-century-long legal campaign singularly focussed on that outcome,” the law professor andcontributor Jeannie Suk Gersen writes. “And there are signs that, far from being an end in itself, it would launch even more ambitious agendas.”
Why were Alito and his fellow-originalists unable to find any legal basis for abortion in the Constitution?Jill Lepore notes How did the current conservative majority on the Supreme Court, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, get to this point?
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