Here’s where things are at in the US on abortion.
What is Roe v Wade?
It’s the landmark Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional nationwide right to abortion in 1973.
It allows American women the right to have an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy, or the first trimester.
A 2018 file photo of supporters at a rally held by Planned Parenthood, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling.
AP Jane Roe - a pseudonym - was an unmarried pregnant woman who filed a suit challenging Texas abortion laws. Henry Wade was the defending district attorney.
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May 20, 2021
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization, a case involving Mississippi s 2018 ban on abortions after 15 weeks, setting the stage for a potentially far-reaching and disruptive change in the existing constitutional framework just months before the midterm elections. The decision to hear this case, about a law that is incontestably unconstitutional, is an ominous signal about the future of reproductive rights, and should serve as a wake-up call for complacent Democrats who have decided to just move on from the GOP s cynical, norm-busting takeover of the Supreme Court.
The narrow scope of the case involves Mississippi s Gestational Age Act that prohibits nearly all abortions after 15 weeks, one of a seemingly endless series of state laws designed as vehicles for asking the Supreme Court to overturn
As soon as the Supreme Court granted cert in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, I rushed online to see the anticipated outcry. More on that in a moment. The case challenges the constitutionality of Mississippi’s gestational age law that barred abortions past 15 weeks except in