The race to undermine reproductive rights in America
Some states can’t wait to end abortion
LIKE SCHRöDINGER’S unfortunate cat, Roe v Wade is in a quantum state as America awaits word from the Supreme Court on a case that could put an end to the constitutional right to abortion. The justices are expected to open that box—in a case challenging Mississippi’s ban on terminating a pregnancy after 15 weeks—by the end of June. But several states are not waiting to see what is revealed. They are forging ahead as if Roe, a precedent from 1973 which protects a woman’s freedom to choose an abortion, were already dead.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Abort mission”
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