Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)
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Haven't followed it that closely, so forgive my ignorance, whilst I know Trump installed a load of right wing judges, how did it get to the point where it needed to be reviewed again by the courts?
Also, these acronyms Americans come up with for pretty much everything annoys the hell out of me.
Also, these acronyms Americans come up with for pretty much everything annoys the hell out of me.
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Once the judges were in place, all that was required was for states to pass anti-abortion laws that blatantly flew in the face of Roe, at which point they would inevitably work their way up through the appellate courts and force the Supreme Court to weigh in.
Conservatives have wanted to overturn Roe vs Wade and Casey (both decisions that allowed abortion in all states) for years. There have been several state bills that restricted abortion that lower courts, upholding the then law, threw out. Despite pleas to review the Supreme court has been avoiding reviewing these cases.
However literally the moment they had the court numbers for a 5-4 decision to reverse the Supreme Court chose to take one of them up for review - a Mississippi one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women's_Health_Organization
The case was about the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi state law that banned most abortion operations after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. Lower courts had prevented enforcement of the law with preliminary injunctions. The injunctions were based on the ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which had prevented states from banning abortion before fetal viability, generally within the first 24 weeks, on the basis that a woman's choice for abortion during that time is protected by rights of privacy under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
It might be in theory, in practice I doubt its ever been a particularly secular country. The country's motto is "In God We Trust" - not exactly a statement indicating religion is separate from the state.
Really saying the quiet part out loud now
In a state like Texas where there is an "exception" for the life of the mother, doctors are reporting that abortion delays are happening even in cases where the fetus is non-viable or already deceased/miscarried. The delay is typically such that the woman has to have deteriorated to a condition like sepsis before the doctor/hospital will perform an abortion.
That motto was adopted in the 1950s as a reaction to the Soviet Communist scare. As was "one nation, under God".
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