Charlie McMillan is no ordinary city official — he’s only seven months old and a new face of the anti-abortion movement in America. The infant mayor’s emergence comes amid mounting anxiety among abortion-rights advocates who fear the 46-year-old Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision that effectively legalized abortion is under threat. But then the 43-year-old real estate agent realized the influence that “Mayor Charlie” had on the people of Whitehall. That could prove difficult with the Supreme Court to rule in the first half of 2020 on a Louisiana law that critics say would force the closure of most of the state’s abortion clinics. Trump campaigned on a pledge to appoint only opponents of abortion to the Supreme Court.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2019 02:26 UTC