Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement, which means leftists everywhere are shouting “code red.” In fact, “code red” was the actual headline at Huffington Post. The looming question: what will become of Roe v. Wade.
“Among the key issues at stake is the constitutional right to an abortion, as upheld in the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade,” lamented HuffPo. “With a conservative replacing Kennedy, anti-abortion activists are likely to shepherd a challenge to that ruling up to the Supreme Court.”
NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue also feared that the moral scourge of abortion has been put in jeopardy.
“For decades, a multi-million-dollar, extreme, anti-choice movement has quietly and aggressively chipped away at that right in state legislatures, in lower courts, and now from within the Trump administration,” Hogue said. “Their stated goal, clearly and loudly, is overturning Roe v. Wade (the landmark Supreme Court decision which recognized that the constitutional right to privacy extends to a woman’s right to make her own personal medical decisions, including the decision to have an abortion).”
“Our country faces a moment of deep crisis—a crisis of rights, of values, and of leadership. The deeply-divided decisions from the Supreme Court this week are a clear warning that our most cherished values are in jeopardy, and now hang in the balance. Women will not go back to the days when abortion was illegal in this country,” she concluded.
Similarly, Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said, “President Trump has promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade. That promise should set off alarm bells for anyone who cares about women—and the Constitution.”
“The stakes of the coming nomination fight are extraordinary. The future of reproductive rights is on the line,” Northup concluded.
Former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards tweeted that Kennedy’s replacement be stalled until future elections: