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    Supreme Court justices sound ready to restrict the right to abortion

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Dec 01, 2021 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservatives sounded ready Wednesday to severely restrict a woman’s right to choose abortion and possibly overturn Roe vs. Wade entirely.

    The court now has six justices who are deeply skeptical of abortion rights. And during arguments about a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, only Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. seemed interested in finding a narrow ruling.

    The others — including President Donald Trump appointees Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, who some legal experts thought might join Roberts — sounded prepared to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe abortion ruling.

    “The Constitution is neither pro-life nor pro-choice on abortion,” Kavanaugh

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