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...choice forces continue their vocal opposition to this backwards motion in women's rights, what difference does this make to the Supreme Court, a majority of which has already indicated that one of the three cases it will hear next session will likely be used to overturn Roe v. Wade...
...Roe were reversed, states would be free to stringently regulate, or even outlaw, abortion...
Last night, ABC News reported that unidentified sources told the network that Justice Harry Blackman, author of the 1973 opinion of Roe v. Wade, had requested more time to complete a "bitter" opinion in opposition to one by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But this report did not say which way the court would rule. There was no answer at the home of the court's press officer...
Abortion-rights advocates fear the court will order the Missouri case reargued next term and do so in a way that signals the justices are contemplating a major retreat from the 1973 ruling in Roe. In that decision, the court said women have a constitutional right to abortion...
...Roe itself was a case that had to be argued twice before a decision was announced. The court hears arguments in about 150 cases each term, and since 1977 has held over at least one case each year for reargument the following term...