Article: New abortion fights: why the Supreme Court probably won't overturn Roe v. Wade.

Long reflection convinced us that although the principle is sound, its application ... was wrong." So declared two Supreme Court Justices in a 1943 case overturning a controversial decision they had voted just two years earlier that Jehovah's Witnesses could be expelled from school for not saluting the flag. Opponents of abortion hope that a similarly dramatic about face will take place this year and that the 16-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion, will be wiped off the law books. Supporters of abortion rights fear that their opponents are right about the inclinations of the increasingly conservative Court. That is why more than 300,000 of them flooded ...

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