For the past few years anyone worried that civil rights in America would be gutted by a right-leaning supreme court has been dismissed as a fearmonger. The supreme court was above partisan politics, we were told. On Wednesday, the US supreme court considered the most important abortion case in a generation. Once again, what’s happening in the US isn’t happening in a vacuum: it’s part of a global assault on women’s rights. “It is our hope and our prayer that in the coming days, a new conservative majority on the supreme court of the United States will take action to restore the sanctity of life at the center of American law,” Pence said.

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2021 06:00 UTC