Alito grills pro-choice lawyer on validity of viability as line for abortion regularions

Justice Saumel Alito grilled a pro-choice lawyer during oral arguments in a major abortion case Wednesday over whether using viability as the threshold for when a state can ban abortion is a valid standard.

“What would you say to the argument that has been made many times by people who are pro-choice and pro-life, that the line really doesn’t make any sense — that it is, as Justice Blackman himself described it, arbitrary?” Alito asked Center for Reproductive Rights counsel Julie Rikelman.

Alito argued that a woman has the same interest in terminating a pregnancy after the viability line is crossed and that, “the fetus has an interest in having a life” both before and after viability…. (Excerpts from Fox News)