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By Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—By a 5-4 margin, with GOP-named Chief Justice John Roberts casting the deciding vote, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 threw out a restrictive Louisiana anti-abortion law.
That drew cheers from pro-choice and women’s rights groups, who warned, however, that the fight over the right to choose continues, both in the courts and at the ballot box this fall.
“I’m overwhelmed and I’m relieved,” National Abortion Rights Action League President Ilyse Hogue told members during an evening Zoom call to introduce Democrat Sara Gideon, Maine’s strongly pro-choice House Speaker, who is running to unseat GOP incumbent Sen. Susan Collins this fall.
The race, a tossup, is one of those Democrats are counting on to retake U.S. Senate control—and to stop GOP President Donald Trump’s continuing cascade of anti-choice federal judges, many of whom would also be hostile to workers’ rights....
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