Location: The City Club of Cleveland, 850 Euclid Ave., 2nd Fl., Cleveland
Time: 12 noon
Tickets: $15/25
Reservations: Required at least 24 hours in advance. Call 216.621.0082 or visit www.cityclub.org.

Abortion, one of America’s most divisive issues, has come to center stage in the wake of the new Supreme Court appointments. President George W. Bush’s choices for the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, have created a Supreme Court with a majority of conservative justices.

A major issue to come to the forefront with this new composition of the high court is the future of abortion and Roe v. Wade, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that is one of the most controversial decisions in the Court’s history. Roe v. Wade has prompted a decades-long debate on the right to terminate pregnancies, the role of the Supreme Court in constitutional adjudication, and the role of religious views in the political sphere.

Professors David Forte of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Jessie Hill of Case Western Reserve University School of Law will debate the impact that the new Supreme Court will have on the legal future of abortion in the 21st century.