USA – Kavanaugh Is the Last Hope for Abortion Rights

Liberals have reviled the conservative Supreme Court justice since his confirmation hearing, but now hope that he still cherishes the reputation for moderation that he cultivated.

By Noah Feldman
August 22, 2021

For the first time in 30 years — a legal generation — the Supreme Court is poised to revisit the law of abortion rights in a fundamental way.

The last time, in 1992, amid expectations
that Roe v. Wade might be reversed, the right to choose was saved by an
unlikely coalition: Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O’Connor, both
President Ronald Reagan’s nominees, and David Souter, nominated by President
George H.W. Bush, wrote a joint opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that
preserved the essential holding of Roe, which had made abortion a
constitutional right in 1973.

Continued: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-22/kavanaugh-is-the-last-hope-for-abortion-rights-and-roe-v-wade


USA – How Abortion Rights Will Die a Death by 1,000 Cuts

How Abortion Rights Will Die a Death by 1,000 Cuts
Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court would mean the demise of not just abortion rights but also a century of progressive reforms.

By Serena Mayeri
Aug. 30, 2018

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s voluminous record, his opinion of the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion ruling, Roe v. Wade, and his views on legal precedent have deservedly been scrutinized in the lead-up to his confirmation hearings next week. But the Supreme Court’s 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, more than Roe, holds the key to understanding the stakes of Judge Kavanaugh’s potential confirmation.

It is Casey that now protects women’s access to reproductive health care in states whose restrictions on health care providers and patients threaten to close clinics or ban abortions outright. And the political lesson conservatives learned from Casey all but guarantees that a vote for Judge Kavanaugh is a vote not only to endanger abortion rights but to turn back the clock on a century of progressive reforms.

Continued: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-abortion-rights-roe-casey.html