‘We’ll see what happens,’ Trump says of abortion laws

Stahl pressed him specifically on the issue of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that allows for women to have abortions, and whether it will be over turned. And 18 states require an abortion to be performed in a hospital after a certain point in the pregnancy, all of which can prolong pregnancy and make it more hard for clinics to operate.

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Stewart-Cousins and Glick’s bill, which was part of a set of bills titled the Women’s Equality Act would move the state’s abortion law to a health code rather than a penal code. He is also against women using contraceptives, according to Slate Magazine.

It was also a distressing throwback to pre-Roe days, when women did, in fact, travel across state lines for abortions, as some are doing already due to limited access or the need for speciality procedures. “As far as Planned Parenthood is concerned, I’m pro-life”, he stated. And he’s been the deciding vote in upholding the right to abortion. They can’t afford to take off work, to pay for gas to get to an out of state clinic or to stay in a hotel before or after the abortion. “It was settled in the Supreme Court”, Trump says. What will be the court’s ideological makeup at that point? So when Justice Antonin Scalia died in February, the Supreme Court got even more political. So statutes like the Texas clinic regulation, which Kennedy joined the liberals in striking down, would remain invalid.

Passed during the summer, the platform strongly supports “traditional marriage” and condemned the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.

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However, Julie Rikelman, litigation director at the Center for Reproductive Rights, told Vox, “I do not believe that it is likely that Roe v. Wade would be overturned”.

However, it’s not clear what would happen if the landmark Supreme Court decision were actually overturned.

“He says one thing one day and the next day he says something else – and then says he never said it the first time”. O’Connor was something of a swing vote, and her replacement with the reliably conservative Alito had a profound impact on the Court’s decisions. That’s essentially what happened in Casey, when everyone thought Roe would be overruled-but it wasn’t.

The case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender teenager in Virginia, hinges on guidance made of the U.S. Department of Education that states federal protection against sex discrimination extends to gender identity. And the big question would be which states would do that.