What Trump’s Supreme Court pick could mean for science
“The scientific community is eager to weigh in on such an important issue, especially given five decades of evidence concerning the importance of abortion access,” says Stephanie Toti, a director at the New York City-based Lawyering Project, a group that advocates for abortion access in the United States. The researchers, some of whom have studied the impact of abortion for many years, are rebutting arguments made to the court that abortion has no beneficial effect on women’s lives and careers - and might even cause them harm. More than 800 scientists and several scientific organizations have provided evidence to the court showing that abortion access is an important component of reproductive health care.
Credit: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/GettyĪn upcoming case in the US Supreme Court might hasten the end of abortion across roughly half of the United States - a right that the country has defended for nearly 50 years. Access to abortion is one of the most polarizing issues in the United States.
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