{"id":156424,"date":"2016-11-10T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T21:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=156424"},"modified":"2016-11-10T19:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T00:43:43","slug":"panicked-abortion-advocates-worry-roe-v-wades-days-numbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/panicked-abortion-advocates-worry-roe-v-wades-days-numbered\/","title":{"rendered":"Panicked abortion activists: This election could mean the end of Roe v. Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the wake of pro-lifers retaking the White House<\/a> and keeping Congress<\/a>, abortion advocates fear<\/a> it\u2019s only a matter of time before they take over the remaining part of the federal government, the Supreme Court\u2014and that with it, Roe v. Wade\u2019s<\/em> 43-year reign of terror might finally come to an end.<\/p>\n

At Cosmopolitan, Robin Marty frets<\/a> (hat tip to Life News<\/a>) that it \u201ccould well mean the end of safe, legal abortion in the country.\u201d (Say, is \u201csafe, legal abortion\u201d a medical term? I seem to recall pro-aborts being sticklers for that sort of thing.)<\/p>\n

The anti-abortion movement faced some of its darkest hours following\u00a0the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia<\/a>. The sudden loss of the most conservative member of the Court threw a wrench in a decade of intricate planning to pass a number of abortion restrictions in state legislatures with the hope that they would be challenged by abortion providers and eventually make it to the Supreme Court, where justices could rule to overturn\u00a0Roe v. Wade. The 5\u20133 decision in\u00a0Whole Women\u2019s Health v. Hellerstedt<\/a>\u00a0made it clear that without a new socially conservative justice, the quest to end abortion through the court system was on hold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Slight correction: we do indeed quest to end abortion, but not through the court system. Overturning Roe<\/em> would only directly end abortion in fifteen states with unenforced abortion bans currently on the books<\/a>, and abortion advocates\u00a0in those states would be free to attempt to persuade their fellow residents or their legislators to repeal those bans.<\/p>\n

All we want from the courts is to get out of the democratic process\u2019s way, both because it\u2019s the constitutionally right thing to do and because we\u2019re confident that as long as we have the chance to make our case in the court of public opinion, legislatures and electorates can get us the rest of the way. Speaking of making our case in the court of public opinion, it seems that when people learn what’s involved in an\u00a0abortion, they’re more likely to change their minds about it:<\/p>\n