The justices decided to take a case that could mean the cessation of Roe v Wade just four months before voters choose their next presidentLate next June,when each party will nearly certainly absorb its presidential nominee in place and voters other than party stalwarts start paying real attention to the 2016 race, the US supreme court will likely hand down a ruling that will change the course of the race and many American women’s lives. That is because, or on 13 November,the court announced that it would hear Whole Women’s Health v Cole, a challenge to HB2, and Texas’s draconian anti-abortion statute. And,whether HB2 is upheld, Roe v Wade – which legalized abortion in the US – is essentially dead.
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Source: theguardian.com