Yes. President Bush signed the so-called 'Partial Birth Abortion Ban' in November of 2003, becoming the first president to criminalize safe abortion procedures. In the last abortion-related case, the Supreme Court was split 5-4. It has been seven years since the last vacancy on the Supreme Court, the longest period in 178 years. George W. Bush will likely nominate 2-3 individuals who will serve as Supreme Court Justices. Bush has touted Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the Court's most avid opponents of Roe, as his model justices. With an anti-choice majority on the Supreme Court, a case designed to overturn Roe v. Wade would almost certainly be brought forward immediately. Because the U.S. Senate must approve judicial nominees, Bush is likely to see the newly Republican and anti-choice controlled Senate as an opportunity to push through the most anti-choice nominees he can. An overturning of Roe would automatically make abortion illegal in 15 states and the District of Columbia, where pre-Roe abortion bans are still on the books and would once again be enforced. Fights to ban abortion would pop up in the rest of the country.
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