ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand says that, as president, she'd seek to write into law the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that legalized abortion. The activists and lawmakers are pushing abortion bans in an attack on the high court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide until a fetus is developed enough to live outside a woman's uterus. "Federal law should supersede harmful state laws that take away women's reproductive freedom," Gillibrand said. And she reiterated an earlier pledge to only nominate Supreme Court justices who will support Roe v. Wade. While the White House hopefuls have expressed outrage about GOP efforts to curb abortion rights, several of them — including Gillibrand and Sens.

Source: Economic Times May 16, 2019 20:03 UTC