{"id":62380,"date":"2019-05-29T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62380"},"modified":"2019-05-29T11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T11:42:17","slug":"pence-calls-on-us-supreme-court-to-take-up-selective-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pence-calls-on-us-supreme-court-to-take-up-selective-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence calls on US Supreme Court to take up \u2018selective\u2019 abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US Vice-President Mike Pence has urged the Supreme Court to take up a case about abortions based on sex, race or potential disability of the fetus, after the high court sidestepped the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pence\u2019s office released a statement saying it remained \u201chopeful that at a later date the Supreme Court will review one of numerous state laws across the US that bar abortion based on sex, race, or disability.\u201d    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While serving as governor of Indiana, Pence had signed into law a ban on so-called \u201cselective\u201d abortions. A lower court struck it down, and earlier Tuesday, the US Supreme Court opted not to weigh in until lower courts do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCountries across the globe prohibit selective abortion  and the United States should do the same,\u201d said the statement from Pence\u2019s press secretary Alyssa Farah on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pence\u2019s remarks follow moves by legislatures in several Republican-led states to restrict access to abortion in a bid to eventually challenge the 1973 US Supreme Court ruling in Roe vs Wade, which made abortion legal nationwide.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice-President Mike Pence has urged the Supreme Court to take up a case about abortions based on sex, race or potential disability of the fetus, after the high court sidestepped the issue. Pence\u2019s office released a statement saying it remained \u201chopeful that at a later date the Supreme Court will review one of numerous [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62382,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62380\/revisions\/62382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}