Why the Supreme Court’s ruling could be worse for pro-lifers than you think

Published June 30, 2016 4:01am ET



This week’s Supreme Court decision on abortion was a huge setback for the pro-life movement. It is possible things are about to get much worse.

Not only did the justices reject the clinic regulations that represented a promising pro-life strategy for curbing legal access to abortion while demonstrating (pro-choice critics would say feigning) concern for women’s health. They did so by a 5-3 margin, meaning the pro-life side would have lost even if Justice Antonin Scalia were still alive.

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