The 8th Circuit strategy: How abortion foes are lining up cases to challenge Roe.

An abortion protest at the Supreme Court in 2016.
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When the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to an Arkansas law effectively banning medication abortions (the “abortion pill”), it sent the case back to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

When a challenge to Iowa’s newly adopted six-week abortion cutoff makes its way through the federal system, it will likely be heard by that same Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

There are also cases involving two Missouri abortion laws pending before the Eighth Circuit, as well as two more from Arkansas and one more from Iowa.

This is not coincidence.

By Lisa Belkin.

Full story at Yahoo News.