{"id":396,"date":"2020-11-20T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/?page_id=396"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:10:41","slug":"foreshadowing-the-reversal-of-roe-v-wade-the-united-states-supreme-court-and-cases-impacting-womens-health","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/online\/volume-xxii-online\/foreshadowing-the-reversal-of-roe-v-wade-the-united-states-supreme-court-and-cases-impacting-womens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreshadowing the Reversal of Roe v. Wade: The United States Supreme Court and Cases Impacting Women\u2019s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This summer, the Supreme Court handed down decisions on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June Medical Services LLC v. Russo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Both of these cases addressed accessibility to women\u2019s reproductive health within an increasingly conservative court. Although <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June Medical<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s outcome was not as destructive as pro-choice advocates projected,<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Little Sisters<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> indicated that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June Medical<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> may be the exception to SCOTUS\u2019s favorable holdings on women\u2019s health, not the rule.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> With a newly solidified 6-3 conservative majority following the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Court is likely positioning itself to battle abortion rights in its next session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/11\/Final_Fulton-Ward_Abortion-Rights_final.pdf\">Foreshadowing the Reversal of\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>: The United States Supreme Court and Cases Impacting Women\u2019s Health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, the Supreme Court handed down decisions on June Medical Services LLC v. Russo and Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania. Both of these cases addressed accessibility to women\u2019s reproductive health within an increasingly conservative court. Although June Medical\u2019s outcome was not as destructive as pro-choice advocates projected, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5459,"featured_media":0,"parent":943,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/396\/revisions\/403"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/gender-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}