Supreme Court's New Supermajority: What It Means For Roe v. Wade
There are two schools of thought: either the right to abortion will be systemically hollowed out, leaving it a right on paper only, or Roe will be overturned.
For the first time in nearly a half century, there is a six-justice conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court â six justices with clearly expressed views against abortion rights. So, will a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy soon be a thing of the past?
In 1973, when the court issued its landmark opinion, the vote was 7-to-2, with five Republican-appointed justices in the majority. But since then, the court's composition has moved inexorably to the ideological right, with the court's three newest justices
