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Five things to know about the leaked Supreme Court ruling and the ... (ncpolicywatch.com)

Dobbs v. Jackson; Roe v. Wade; U.S. Supreme Court; the future of abortion rights and reproductive freedom in America.

As noted above, by publicly identifying a justice with the opinion, the leak makes it much harder for that person to be persuaded to soften their view or switch sides. Often, members of the Court are persuaded by drafts to alter their views, to work to come up with a better or different draft, or even to switch sides. No opinion is worth the destructive effects this opinion would usher forth.” Across the world, millions of people are asking how and why the leak occurred, what the draft opinion says, and what – if it is in fact the final word – the opinion would mean in the real world. 2) The leak harms the Court and undermines its legitimacy. As Neil Siegel, a professor of both law and public policy at Duke University and a former clerk to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told me in an interview Tuesday afternoon for the Policy Watch radio show/podcast, News and Views, leaks like this of draft rulings are incredibly rare and don’t happen by accident.

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Trudeau vows to defend abortion rights after US Supreme Court move (CNA)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to defend abortion rights as the decades-old battle over the issue exploded anew this week in Canada's southern ...

A draft US Supreme Court decision, leaked late on Monday, showed a majority of justices prepared to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade decision that protects abortion rights. Canada's Supreme Court decriminalised abortion in a historic 1988 ruling. Every woman in Canada has the right to a legal and safe abortion," Trudeau told reporters before a meeting of Liberal lawmakers in Ottawa on Wednesday.

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US supreme court justices on abortion – what they've said and how ... (The Guardian)

Chief Justice John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh.

“Roe’s core holding that, you know, women have a right to an abortion – I don’t think that would change,” said Barrett, then a Notre Dame law professor. The supreme court ultimately struck down that notification rule in Casey and reaffirmed the abortion right in 1992 by a 5-4 vote. She is also arguably the most consistent voice on the court arguing for the importance of adhering to precedents. He voted to uphold every abortion law the supreme court has considered since his 2006 confirmation. At his 2005 confirmation hearing, he said overturning precedent “is a jolt to the legal system”, which depends in part on stability and evenhandedness. Although a state may permit abortion, nothing in the constitution dictates that a state must do so.”

US abortion: Leaked document shows Supreme Court plans to ... (The BMJ)

If the court overturns Roe v Wade, 26 of the 50 US states will immediately or very quickly ban abortions or severely limit them. About 58% of US women of ...

He launched an investigation into the leak, which is the first in the court’s modern history. John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court, said on 3 May that the leaked document was authentic. Abortion decisions would be returned to “the people’s elected representatives.” The majority opinion draft was leaked to the Politico website on 2 May.1

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Donations to U.S. abortion rights groups, clinics surge after Supreme ... (Reuters)

Donations have flooded into abortion clinics and abortion-rights advocacy groups since the leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft ruling that showed the ...

National anti-abortion groups Susan B. Anthony List and March for Life did not immediately respond to inquiries about donations. "We need to keep those clinics open in that interim." Between Monday night and midday Wednesday, more than 4,000 donors gave more than $100,000 to the Abortion Care Network, a national association of 150 independent U.S. abortion clinics. Fifty-one percent of donors were giving for the first time. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

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Roe v Wade: 'Wake up America' - a decision on abortion rights could ... (Sky News)

The USA is just weeks away from a decision which has the potential to further fracture what some see as an already divided nation.

"If they flip the house from blue to red, and then take the presidency in 2024, I think there's no question that we will see an attempt for a federal abortion ban," she says. And we will share information about abortion pills and where to get access because this is a fundamental human right." I want to see much wider education and just taking charge of it and not having a doctor who is usually a man, who can say whether he will be willing to do the procedure." She thinks more women may turn back to using it if abortion is outlawed in many states. Carol Downer is an abortion activist who helped create an underground network of women who performed home abortions in the pre-Roe era. If it is overturned by the Supreme Court, 26 states are poised to immediately impose severe restrictions on abortion, affecting millions of women.

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Roe v. Wade live updates: Reactions to Supreme Court leaked ... (NBC News)

President Joe Biden has said “a woman's right to choose is fundamental” and that his administration “will be ready when any ruling is issued.”.

Should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade goes too far and would divide the country. The organization was founded by Julian Assange and works to publish news leaks provided by anonymous sources. “As a Catholic, I do not support abortion, however, we cannot have an outright ban,” Cuellar said. Research suggests the bans and restrictions would have manifold effects on maternal health. The Supreme Court confirmed Tuesday that the leaked draft published on Monday by Politico was "authentic," with Chief Justice John Roberts calling the leak an "egregious breach" of the court's trust. Senate Democrats on Tuesday took the first steps to consider a bill that would codify the abortion rights protections in Roe v. They can fly to another country. Many say they’ve already been given a preview of what could be to come in states like Texas. However, the bill appears to lack the required 60 votes. “I walked proudly into Planned Parenthood, and I make no apologies to anyone.” “We will not go backward,” she said.

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What the Supreme Court Should Know about Abortion Care (Scientific American)

My supervising physician asked me in response, “Do you think women have a right to this procedure?” I thought, “Well … yeah, of course.” With the leaked ...

They fail to account for the range of prognoses that characterize many conditions, as well as how the complexities of psychosocial circumstances, mental health and disparities in access to care affect a person’s health outcomes. While some people might conclude it is appropriate to limit abortion after a certain point in pregnancy and to limit the reasons for terminating a pregnancy, pregnancy is one of the most complex biological processes—and thus the ways in which it can go awry are myriad and complex. It appears our highest court will not wield this sword responsibly with regards to abortion, and the blindfolds some of the justices wear with regard to body autonomy need to come off. Multiple studies have confirmed that abortion restrictions do more harm than good, that abortion is safe, and that the oft-cited concern that having an abortion is detrimental to mental health is not true. Decisions that a person makes with their doctor require a nuanced consideration of individual values and circumstances, rather than a generalized approach that can be legislated; this was part of the argument in Roe v. As we face an onslaught of anti-abortion state legislation, we should be prepared with an idea of how to best balance the scales to offer the greatest benefit for the least harm. While that daydream may seem naive, the fact is that many patients who identify as “pro-life” have sat in my office after unexpected news about their pregnancy and expressed to me that they have a new understanding of these nuanced issues. Technology has continued to advance since the original abortion decisions in 1973 and 1992. If the leaked opinion on Dobbs stands, it will prevent me from providing the full suite of obstetrical care and upend 50 years of precedent that preserves the right to end a pregnancy. While we cannot eliminate individual values and morality from this debate, if we accept the premise that medicine is an applied science, it is worth examining the science behind why abortion restrictions are harmful. I have written before about how providing medical care that both honors birth and upholds a person’s right not to carry a pregnancy is not a contradiction. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court has indicated its willingness to place a heavy brick on the scale of the statue of Lady Justice, who graces the Supreme Court building.

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In their words: US Supreme Court justices' records on abortion (Aljazeera.com)

A 6-3 conservative majority on the US's top court appears prepared to reverse precedents allowing abortion.

Kavanaugh called that decision out-of-step with the “many majority opinions of the Supreme Court that have repeatedly upheld reasonable regulations that do not impose an undue burden on the abortion right recognized by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Kagan was in the majority when the court struck down the Texas and Louisiana restrictions on abortion clinics. Kavanaugh was criticized by some conservatives for not going as far as a colleague, Judge Karen Henderson, who stated unambiguously that an immigrant in the US illegally has no right to an abortion. She said limits on what she called “very late-term abortions” and restrictions on abortion clinics would be more likely to be upheld. Wade”. About the same time, applying for a promotion, Alito noted he was “particularly proud” of his work arguing “that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion”. As a justice, Kavanaugh dissented from the Louisiana decision and voted to allow the new Texas law to take effect, though he has taken a less absolutist stance than some of his conservative colleagues. While working in the Clinton White House she was the co-author of a memo that urged the president for political reasons to support a late-term abortion ban proposed by Republicans in Congress, so long as it contained an exception for the health of the woman. Sotomayor joined the court in 2009 with virtually no record on abortion issues but has voted repeatedly in favour of abortion rights since then. Breyer has been the lead author of two court majorities in defence of abortion rights, in 2000 and 2016. Recounting the court’s decision in Roe, he wrote: “In 1973, this Court struck down an Act of the Texas Legislature that had been in effect since 1857, thereby rendering unconstitutional abortion statutes in dozens of States. As some of my colleagues on the Court, past and present, ably demonstrated, that decision was grievously wrong. As a federal appeals court judge, he voted to uphold a series of Pennsylvania abortion restrictions, including requiring a woman to notify her spouse before obtaining an abortion. But when a virtually identical law from Louisiana came before the court in 2020, Roberts voted against it and wrote the opinion controlling the outcome of the case and striking down the Louisiana law.

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