Opinion: Republicans keep pushing the Supreme Court towards overturning Roe
The Supreme Cort building in Washington on March 11. By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 22 at 2:55 PM In his final debate with Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump was asked whether he wanted to see Roe v. Wade overturned. “Well, if we put another two or perhaps three justices on, that’s really what’s going to be — that will happen,” he said.
Mississippi’s new restrictions are part of a reinvigorated nationwide effort to limit access to abortion, propelled by Republican-dominated state legislatures and an increasingly conservative Supreme Court. This year alone, at least 11 states have introduced “heartbeat bills,” including Texas, Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Missouri — some of the country’s most populous states.
And there is no doubt that overturning Roe, which is one of the core goals of the Republican Party, would be a political catastrophe. Around two-thirds of the American public opposes overturning the decision, and few things would motivate Democrats to get out to the polls more than the court finally doing what liberals have warned against for years.
And Roberts is fine with TRAP laws. In 2016, when there was still a pro-abortion-rights majority on the court, he dissented in a case where the court struck down a Texas TRAP law that required abortion clinics to meet a long list of requirements, including things such as having 8-foot-wide hallways so two gurneys could pass by one another, as though it were a hospital emergency room. Few clinics could meet the standards — none of which had any rational connection to protecting women’s health.
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