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N.J. should act to protect abortion rights with Supreme Court case looming, advocates say NJ.com 2 hrs ago Susan K. Livio, nj.com
Female lawmakers and pro-choice advocates in New Jersey have warned that abortion rights are under threat since the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg eight months ago and the appointment of conservative jurist Amy Coney Barrett to replace her.
On Monday, those concerns intensified after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would review Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The case strikes at the heart of Roe V. Wade, the landmark case that established a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973 and is the first abortion case for the nation’s highest court since former President Trump appointed three conservative justices.
Supreme Court agrees to hear abortion case, a possible threat to Roe v. Wade
The case involves a Mississippi law that would prohibit most abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. A person in the crowd holds up a flag that reads Abortion as demonstrators from both sides of the issue rally outside the Supreme Court, in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
May 17, 2021
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case involving a challenge to a Mississippi law prohibiting most abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, a move that could weaken abortion rights nationwide.
The U.S. Supreme Court has granted the state of Mississippi’s certiorari petition in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The petition concerns Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, enacted in 2018, which allows abortions after 15 weeks of gestational age only in medical emergencies or in instances of severe fetal abnormality. The question the Court agreed to review is: Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. The