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Sunday, August 28, 2022

The Abortion Emergency in the Federal Courts

Andrew Koppelman

It is now notorious that the criminalization of abortion, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overruling of Roe v. Wade, doesn’t do much to lower the abortion rate but has had devastating effects on the ability of doctors to treat pregnancies that go wrong.  Horror stories accumulate.  Opponents of abortion have claimed that the press has exaggerated the danger.  Yet two recent lawsuits have made clear that this harm is very real.  Efforts to preserve women’s health are being resisted, with some success, even in cases where the fetus is doomed.

The Supreme Court indicated in Dobbs v. Womens Health Center that it wanted to stay away from the abortion issue.  Yet it is certainly coming back there, and soon, because of a new division between two lower federal courts.

I explain in a new column at The Hill.


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