The Supreme Court, with a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, ruled there was no federal right to abortion, overturning its Roe v. Wade decision.
last year with conspiring to obstruct access to a Washington abortion clinic on Oct. 22, 2020.
But Kollar-Kotelly wrote that argument"is predicated on the false legal premises that the"federal law cited in the indictment"only regulates access to abortion," when in fact is also regulates access to a broad category of reproductive health services. The judge wrote that the question before the high court in Dobbs"was not whether any provision of the Constitution provided a right to abortion."
"That is why neither the majority nor the dissent in Dobbs analyzed anything but the Fourteenth Amendment," she wrote."In fact, on the Court's initial review, not a single [friend-of-the-court] brief mentioned anything but the Fourteenth Amendment and the unratified Equal Rights Amendment."
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