Guam’s Governor Opposes Attempt to Reinstate Old Abortion Ban

The Ninth Circuit should reject efforts by Guam’s Republican attorney general to bring back a near-total abortion ban that was blocked in 1990, the island’s governor said Friday.

There’s no doubt that courts must look at abortion cases differently after the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which held that there is no federal constitutional right to end a pregnancy before viability, Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero (D) said. But Guam’s 1990 law was never valid in the first place, meaning there’s an alternative reason for leaving the injunction blocking it in place, she told ...