In his majority opinion in the case overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the high court was finally settling the vexed abortion debate by returning the “authority to regulate abortion” to the “people and their elected representatives.”Despite these assurances, less than two years after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, abortion is back at the Supreme Court.
In the next month, the justices will hear arguments in two high-stakes cases that may shape the future of access to medication abortion and to lifesaving care for pregnancy emergencies.
These cases make clear that Dobbs did not settle the question of abortion in America — instead, it generated a new slate of questions.
The first case, scheduled for argument on Tuesday, F.D.A.
At issue is the law’s interaction with state laws that severely restrict abortion, like an Idaho law that bans abortion except in cases of rape or incest and circumstances where abortion is “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.”
Persons:
Roe, Wade, Samuel Alito, Dobbs, America —, ”
Organizations:
Jackson, Health Organization, Supreme, Alliance, Hippocratic, Food, Labor
Locations:
America, Idaho