For Joshua Hon, the prospect of another open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court was the moment he has been waiting for since voting for President Donald Trump four years ago.

"I would not say that I love Trump, but I do believe that abortion is killing babies,” said Hon, 35, who lives in Durham County in North Carolina.

Hundreds of miles north, in the Cincinnati suburbs, Julie Womack’s phone has not stopped ringing, flooded with panicked messages from female friends who were worried that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death could mean the end of a right they believed was inviolable.