What Trump’s Nominee Will Mean For Abortion Rights in US

Conservatives on the court would then have a 6-3 majority, which would likely have sweeping implications for an array of issues, including the future of , the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that guarantees a woman’s right to an abortion.

The Supreme Court has been at the heart of this strategy. Every Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan has campaigned on a who respect “the sanctity of innocent human life”.

However, once a justice is confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court, his or her voting behaviour is impossible to guarantee.

In the early 1990s, there were ostensibly seven conservative justices on the court, five of whom had been nominated by Republican presidents Reagan and George H W Bush.

Yet in the case , a challenge over abortion laws in the state of Pennsylvania, a triumvirate of Reagan-Bush…