Submit-Dobbs, “the anti-abortion motion is regrouping round a brand new purpose: utilizing the federal authorities to ban abortion in the remainder of the nation,” warns Vox’s Adam Freelander.
Within the explainer video above, hear from Carrie Baker, chair of the Program for the Examine of Ladies and Gender at Smith School, and Ms. contributing editor; Mary Ziegler, legislation professor on the College of California, Davis Faculty of Regulation, and Ms. contributor; and Vox reporters Ian Millhiser, Anna North and Rachel Cohen.
“Whether or not the U.S. bans it fully is mainly as much as the subsequent president. …
“If Republicans take management of Congress within the 2024 election, it’s very doable they may go a nationwide abortion ban legislation. However specialists don’t contemplate that the almost definitely method a nationwide abortion ban might come about, for 2 causes: Polling reveals it will be extraordinarily unpopular, and it will require the elimination of the Senate filibuster. As a substitute, they level to a distinct department of the federal authorities — the president’s workplace and all of the federal businesses it oversees.
“Within the federal businesses, opponents of abortion might vogue a de facto abortion ban by chipping away at abortion entry in quite a few methods, for instance limiting entry to medicine abortion, which now constitutes two-thirds of all abortions within the US. The most important method that the president’s workplace might restrict abortion is by deciding to implement one thing referred to as the Comstock Act: a 150-year-old abortion ban killed by Roe v. Wade and introduced again to life by its repeal.
“The ultimate method the subsequent president might decide the way forward for abortion rights is thru federal courtroom appointments. The anti-abortion motion’s “subsequent Roe v. Wade” is the nationwide authorized recognition of fetal personhood, an concept that will by definition outlaw all abortion. The present Supreme Courtroom isn’t but right-wing sufficient to endorse this concept. However after one other Trump time period, that might change.”
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