{"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 [&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,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_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}]}}