Article
Federal Abortion Rights Under a Conservative United States Supreme Court
Drake Law Review Online
(2020)
Abstract
In the 2019 decision Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana, a conservative U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a provision of an Indiana abortion law, which was invalidated by a lower court and purported to bar the knowing provision of sex-selective, race-selective, or disability-selective abortions. In the view of the Court’s clear conservative majority and the fact that only four of the nine justices were needed for review, the Court’s declination evidences at least two of the Court’s five conservatives deliberately avoided revisiting the abortion-rights issue. As set forth more fully below, this has to do with protecting both the Court’s institutional legitimacy and the conservative movement in today’s hyperpartisan political climate.
Keywords
- Constitutional Law,
- abortion rights,
- United States Supreme Court,
- Political Partisanship
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring March, 2020
Citation Information
Akram Faizer. "Federal Abortion Rights Under a Conservative United States Supreme Court" Drake Law Review Online (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/akram_faizer/14/
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