“A federal choose in Washington, D.C., instructed Monday that there could also be a constitutional proper to abortion baked into the thirteenth Modification — an space she stated went unexplored by the Supreme Court docket in its momentous resolution final yr overturning Roe v. Wade,” Politico stories.

Decide Colleen Kollar-Kotelly “famous that there’s some authorized scholarship suggesting that the thirteenth Modification — which was ratified on the finish of the Civil Conflict and sought to ban slavery and ‘involuntary servitude’ — offers simply such a proper.”

“She is asking the events within the legal case, which entails expenses of blocking entry to abortion clinics, to current arguments by mid-March.”

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