Correspondent ‘s comment Trump was evicted from the White House, but he left a tearing legacy to the women: a lawsuit begins in the US to decide the future of abortion

Abroad|Correspondent ‘s comment

Washington

Millions American life is in the hands of nine people as the U.S. Supreme Court begins Wednesday to hear the most important abortion lawsuit against women’s memory.

HS is showing a live broadcast from Washington on Wednesday night from the news agency Reuters. There may be interruptions in the transmission.

It is up to the court to determine whether the state of Mississippi’s abortion laws are constitutional. Mississippi wants to ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The current position of the Supreme Court is that abortion is legal until the fetus can live outside the womb, about the 23rd week of pregnancy.

If Mississippi law is found to be constitutional, other conservative states will also rush to tighten their abortion laws. Depending on the decision, the right to abortion may disappear from part of the country altogether.

The trial will start on Wednesday at 5 pm Finnish time. Initially, oral arguments will be heard, which will only give an indication of the court’s position. The actual decision is expected next June.

Mississippi The law directly challenges the 1973 precedent of Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortions throughout the United States. The right to abortion was confirmed in another precedent in 1992. Admittedly, it allowed abortion to be regulated in such a way that it is already very difficult to obtain an abortion in some parts of the country.

Proponents of the right to abortion believe that the preliminary rulings of the Supreme Court make the right to abortion a constitutional right that cannot be affected. Yet in the United States, there is widespread suspicion that the Supreme Court will at least restrict the right to abortion as a result of the Mississippi case.

What has changed?

At least composition of the Supreme Court.

Although the court should be a non-political body, judges are appointed by politicians. They tend to be classified as liberal and conservative. The Conservatives now have a solid majority: six of them and three of the Liberal judges.

This lineup is a former president, a Republican Donald Trumpin Peru. Trump was able to appoint three of the six Conservative judges.

It is partly a coincidence. Judge appointments are for life, and during Trump’s term, two of the judges died.

There is also ruthless politicking in the background, thanks to the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

One judge vacated as early as spring 2016 as a Democrat Barack Obaman during the presidency, but contrary to tradition, McConnell blocked the appointment of a judge, arguing that it was an election year and had to wait for the result of the presidential election.

In the fall of 2020, however, there was no problem for McConnell replace a deceased liberal judge Ruth Bader Ginsburgia fast-paced conservative and anti-abortionist Amy Coney Barrettilla.

Purpose consecrated the means, and it was rewarded. Conservative opponents of abortion have been a major political force in the United States for decades. Now they are closer to achieving their goal than maybe ever before.

Before the 2016 presidential election, one wondered how conservative Christians could vote for an ungodly-looking man like Trump. But abortion is the most important political issue for them, and Trump promised to appoint judges against the right to abortion in the Supreme Court.

He kept that promise.