SAN FRANCISCO Five years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door slightly to restricting abortions before fetal viability. On Monday, anti-abortion advocates will attempt to drive an Arizona-sized truck through it as they defend a new law from that state banning all abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation, with the only exception for medical emergencies.
“This case represents a critical turning point in American jurisprudence,” amicus curiae Liberty Counsel writes in support of Arizona’s law. “Do states have the ability to respond to advances in science and public policy by acting to protect unborn children, as stated in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, 877 (1992) and Gonzales v. Carhart, 550 U.S. 124, 146 (2007), or are the interests established in those cases merely illusory?”
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