{"id":49791,"date":"2022-06-25T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49791"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:10:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T17:10:23","slug":"supreme-courts-abortion-ruling-is-watershed-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49791","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court\u2019s abortion ruling is watershed moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s extraordinary decision to eliminate the universal right to abortion is a watershed moment in the American experiment, ending half a century when women were free to make their own reproductive decisions and immediately ushering in an era when states can make that choice for them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a practical standpoint, the court\u2019s decision is an earthquake, one that is already leading to the creation of a checkerboard legal system in which blue states continue allowing the procedure and red states apply new restrictions or outright bans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Politically speaking, however, the battle going forward will look much the same as it\u2019s been, pitting pro-choice liberals against anti-abortion conservatives in a cultural cagematch to determine the fate and form of reproductive rights across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s extraordinary decision to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49792,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791\/revisions\/49792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}