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How Pro-Life Activists Are Reacting to the Supreme Court’s Latest Abortion Decision
posted on June 30, 2020Slate’s Ruth Graham writes, “On Monday, abortion rights activists celebrated as the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that would have shut down two of the state’s three abortion clinics.” Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Court’s liberal justices in the 5-4 decision. Graham writes, “The institutional anti-abortion movement has spent years instructing people with anti-abortion convictions to ‘vote pro-life.’ In presidential elections, this means voting for the candidate who will install federal judges seen as friendly to their cause. What does it say about that strategy that a Republican-nominated justice has handed their movement a major defeat?” The social conservatives she interviewed were divided on a path forward.