• A federal judge suggested that the federal right to abortion — which the Supreme Court overturned last year — might still be protected by the Constitution’s 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
• Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly posed that hypothetical in a court order in a case against anti-abortion activists charged with blocking access to an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C.
• The judge, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, asked lawyers to file briefs on the question of whether the Supreme Court’s decision is limited to 14th Amendment grounds.

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