Opinion: Waiting, fearing and cheering -- America anticipates Supreme Court's verdict on Roe v. Wade

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The Supreme Court seems ready to undo Roe v.

This language prohibits federal funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest and life or health of the mother.

Reversing Roe would be our reward

People like me who voted for Trump, in the belief that the Supreme Court ought to be our highest priority, should feel vindicated...

Donald Trump said and did a lot of things I didn't agree with, but I voted for him to be my president, not my pastor.

Nicole Hemmer: There is perhaps no greater farce than Alito's appeal to democracy

He (Alito) maintains voters, not courts, should decide whether abortion is legal.

Overturning Roe, he argues, in fact empowers women, because it "allows women on both sides of the abortion issue to seek to affect the legislative process by influencing public opinion, lobbying legislators, voting, and running for office."

Except the very court he sits on has restricted those rights: deciding a presidential election by stopping the 2000 recount (Bush v. Gore), diluting voters' lobbying power by allowing unlimited and anonymous campaign spending (Citizens United v. FEC) and gutting the Voting Rights Act (Shelby County v. Holder).

As a result of all this, the current court will allow a state to restrict access to both abortion and the ballot box.

Joseph: The Supreme Court is about to take a huge step away from racial justice

For Black women living in the South, the birthplace of racial slavery and its afterlife that produced health disparities and racist practices such as forced sterilization, the effects of a post-Roe America promise to be particularly acute.

Historically, Black women have lacked access to humane and decent health care.

Wade is a fight we've been preparing for our whole lives

American citizens who believe in the right to legal abortion can still push back against the Supreme Court's impending ruling — in fact, we need everybody who cares about human and civil rights and bodily autonomy to get involved.

Abortion funds and states codifying Roe v.

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Paula Ávila-Guillén is a Colombian human rights lawyer, sexual and reproductive rights activist and executive director of the Women's Equality Center, an organization devoted to supporting and elevating the work of people and organizations in Latin America focused on reproductive freedom.

Franchetta Groves: A lot of young women worry about the end of Roe.

I would celebrate it

I believe that abortion harms women.

It undermines the beauty of motherhood and tells women that their children are a hindrance to their dreams and that life is not a blessing.

After Roe, I believe it will be possible for our nation to be one that doesn't cast judgment on women who become pregnant, but one that embraces them with love and compassion.

And it must also be one that always protects human life and appreciates the intrinsic value of each being from the moment of conception.

Over the decades, this debate has been characterized by hostility and villainization on both the abortion-rights and anti-abortion sides.

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That illegalizing abortion will deepen racial inequities is an uncomfortable reality for those who propose doing so.

It is no surprise then that, in the run-up to the upcoming Supreme Court decision on abortion, leading pro-life organizations have testified to their own diversity.

In the last few months, the National Right to Life Committee honored her, the head of the Susan B.

A Black Methodist woman, she embodied the aspirations of a movement that, upon her election in 1975 as president of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), was composed almost entirely of White Catholic men.