The continued erosion of legal abortion access across the U.S. South comes after Republican state lawmakers replaced the lone female on the court, Justice Kaye Hearn.
Writing for the new majority, Justice John Kittredge acknowledged that the 2023 law infringes on "a woman's right of privacy and bodily autonomy," but said the state legislature reasonably determined this time around that those interests don't outweigh "the interest of the unborn child to live."
SEE ALSO: Demonstrations on both sides of abortion issue held downtown, one year after Roe v. Wade overturned Hearn then reached the court's mandatory retirement age, enabling the Republican-dominated legislature to put Gary Hill on what is now the nation's only state Supreme Court with an entirely male bench.
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