The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a major abortion case,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health, from Mississippi. The law in question, the Gestational Age Act, bans abortion after 15 weeks gestation, and the court will decide if these restrictions on pre-viability on elective abortions are unconstitutional. The high court will review a lower court decision that blocked the law from being enforced.
BREAKING: the Supreme Court will hear a major abortion case, asking whether all pre-viability restrictions on abortion are unconstitutional. The case involves a Mississippi law than bans abortions after 15 weeks. #SCOTUSpic.twitter.com/D1EYIRcMkn Kevin Daley ?? (@KevinDaleyDC) May 17, 2021
Supreme Court to Review 15-Week Abortion Ban in Mississippi
Not clear how court will rule as it isn t as conservative as it appears
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The Supreme Court agreed to consider a case involving Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The court is only agreeing to consider one question of the petition, however: whether “all pre-viability prohibitions” of abortions are constitutional.
“Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, the law in question, was signed into law in 2018 but is not currently in effect,” reported the National Catholic Register. “Although it banned most abortions after 15 weeks, it included exceptions for when the mother’s life or major bodily function is in danger, or in cases where the unborn child has a severe abnormality and is not expected to survive outside the womb at full term.”
Supreme Court to Hear Historic Mississippi Abortion Case
17 May 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide if state laws banning most abortions are unconstitutional, in a major case challenging new Mississippi abortion restrictions.
The petition filed at the Court asks “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional” in the U.S., posing the most significant challenge in decades to the right to abortion created by the Supreme Court in its 1973
Roe v. Wade
decision.
The Supreme Court relisted this petition for conference more than 20 times. The Court wrestled since October on if it should take this case, and there were lesser questions they could have tackled, but in the end, they decided to take up the broadest version of the issue.