But their backers seek to go beyond that step, planning to appeal such decisions until they reach the Supreme Court in hopes this will lead to the long-sought conservative goal of overturning the abortion ruling. "All the conservative states across the US are testing the limits, they see it's a sympathetic court to the conservatives," Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown Law told AFP. "(President Donald) Trump has changed the balance of the Supreme Court, so that he now has a Supreme Court that is decisively conservative and unfriendly to women's reproductive rights, that's unquestionably true." "There are a lot of uncertainties, so we don't know where the conservative justices stand exactly." "Chief Justice John Roberts is very aware of how the public perceives the Supreme Court.

Source: Bangkok Post May 18, 2019 03:33 UTC