The Future of Abortion Under a New Supreme Court? Look to Arkansas

Written by <a href="index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=21022"><span class="small">Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times</span></a>

Friday, 07 September 2018 09:00

Tavernise writes: "There are 13 abortion cases currently before federal appeals courts, including the Arkansas case, and legal experts say any of them could be the first to reach the Supreme Court after Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement."

Activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. (photo: Getty Images)

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The Future of Abortion Under a New Supreme Court? Look to Arkansas

By Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times

07 September 18

hen a patient arrived this spring at the only abortion clinic in western Arkansas, the doctor had startling news: A new state law had gone into effect, and clinics could no longer perform abortions via medication in the state.

�Wait � all of Arkansas?� the patient asked her doctor, Stephanie Ho.

�Yes,� Dr. Ho remembered replying.

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