Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation could open the door to a world that many anti-abortion-rights activists have been envisioning for decades.
“I hope and pray that we will be in a world post-Roe v. Wade,” said Carrie Murray Nellis, 41, an adoption attorney based in Georgia.
Murray Nellis is the founder of Abiding Love Adoptions, which operates in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. She hopes Barrett’s confirmation will lead to the overturning of the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, which would thereby allow states to further restrict or ban the procedure.
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