Roe’s foesIN THEIR four-decade fight against Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court ruling of 1973 that recognised a right to abortion, pro-lifers have taken several tacks. One is to curtail the period during which women may end their pregnancies. Another is to ban particularly grisly-sounding techniques like “partial-birth” abortion. Recently, opponents of Roe have been waging a regulatory war of attrition that makes abortion harder and harder to obtain. On March 2nd, a Supreme Court diminished by the loss of Antonin Scalia, the conservative justice who died in February, asked whether a law of 2013 that, in effect, shuts down more than three-quarters of the 40-odd abortion clinics in Texas runs foul of a 1992 precedent prohibiting states from unduly imposing on a woman’s right to choose.
Under the law, abortion providers in Texas must have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and clinics must be expensively fitted out as “ambulatory surgical centres”. Legislators pitch the requirements as a boon to maternal health; detractors decry them as onerous, unwarranted changes...Continue reading
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