The Supreme Court just gave anti-abortion zealots everything they need.
is just two weeks after a person with a regular menstrual cycle misses their first period. That’s not much time to realize you missed your period, take a pregnancy test, confirm you’re pregnant, make the decision to have an abortion, find a clinic, and then get the abortion. Add on that many people have irregular periods or spotty bleeding even if they are pregnant, and many people wouldn’t even know they’re pregnant until after the six-week period is up.
It’s reasonable to wonder how we got here and how the Court allowed a law to go into effect that so blatantly goes against precedent. The answers to these questions can be found in two places — the 2016 election and the inventiveness of the anti-abortion movement in Texas. First, the 2016 election. When Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by losing the popular vote by almost 3 million, he gained the power to appoint new Justices to the Supreme Court. Thanks to Mitch McConnell’s political maneuvering, as well as the timing of Supreme court deaths and retirements, President Trump was able to appoint three new Justices to the Supreme Court.
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