Abortion Debate

The Supreme Court will here a challenge to a Federal Law prohibiting Late Term Abortions.

Restrictions on abortions, under current Supreme Court precedent, must have an exception permitting them when the mother's life is at risk or she is facing dire health consequences such as severe blood loss, damage to vital organs, or infertility.

The law that is being challenged would expressly prohibit, with criminal sanctions against the doctors and the women, abortions even if taking no action will lead to infertility of the mother, inevitable death of the fetus, severe blood loss, and damage to vital organs. To avoid criminal punishment, the women and doctors would be required by law to wait to take action until the woman's life is in jeopardy.

Many are expecting for Roe v. Wade to fall under the Supreme Court as currently constituted.