For decades, the Supreme Court has held to a measured attitude summed up by a famous constitutional scholar, Paul Freund, that “the Court should never be influenced by the weather of the day, but it will inevitably be influenced by the climate of the ‘era “. With regard to abortion, and despite the reservations and criticisms addressed from the outset to the Roe v. Wade, the judges have long been careful not to go against a public opinion that has consistently come out in favor of maintaining this federal law. They had even reaffirmed it in another judgment in 1992. The polarization accentuated by the appointments of three very conservative judges by Donald Trump, who reinforced the conservative majority already in place, broke this lock.
Abortion rights in the United States undermined by a Supreme Court decision
