Supreme Court s anti-abortion wing welcomes a Roe v. Wade killer
Conservatives have spent years teeing up a case like this one for the court.
This is it. The big one.Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
May 18, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC
Conservatives have been playing the long game on Roe v. Wade, even as their attempts to overturn the 1973 precedent have failed time and again. Their patience is due to pay off this fall, when the court that former President Donald Trump built, with its 6-3 conservative majority, will determine how early in a pregnancy states can block women from getting abortions.
The decade leading up to this moment has been foreshadowing, as Republican-led states have thrown law after extreme law at the federal courts. But the case in question Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization is the big one. It s the chance they ve been waiting for and working toward as reverently and zealously as John the Baptist prepared the way for the Messiah.
Around the nation: Supreme Court to hear case challenging Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court on Monday announced it will hear
Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization, a case from Mississippi that could challenge the 1973
Roe v. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to abortion, in today s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Texas.
District of Columbia: The Supreme Court on Monday announced it will hear
Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization, a case from Mississippi that could challenge the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion. In
Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health Organization, lower courts ruled as unconstitutional a Mississippi law banning abortion if the fetus s gestational age is more than 15 weeks, citing as precedent
May 18, 2021
This will be the first major abortion case since Donald Trump appointed three conservatives to the court.
TeeRoy s 2 Cents:
Abortion continues to be a hot-button issue in the U.S.
It ll be interesting to see if the conservative judges Trump picked tow the party line.
How you feel about abortion often depends on how you were brought up.
This will be the first major abortion case to head to the court since Donald Trump appointed three conservatives the nation s highest court, including his latest pick, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
The Supreme Court will hear Dobbs versus Jackson Women s Health Organization, 19-1392 in October, but isn t likely to make a decision until June 2022. The case involves a Mississippi abortion law that prohibits abortions after 15 weeks. It was later blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. (CNBC)