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Lawyers for Mississippi asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn Roe vs. Wade and give state legislators the authority to outlaw all abortions.
The justices in May agreed to hear the state’s appeal of a lower court’s invalidation of a Mississippi law that would forbid abortions after 15 weeks.
In their brief filed with the court Thursday, the state’s lawyers raised the stakes and argued that the right to abortion set in 1973 should be repealed entirely.
They said that Roe was “egregiously wrong” as a matter of constitutional law and that it has proved to be “hopelessly unworkable” in practice. They pointed to the fact that more than a dozen conservative states like Mississippi want to outlaw most or all abortions.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The state of Mississippi on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court in a major case set to be argued in its next term to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that recognized that women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
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Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, said in papers filed with the court that the Roe v. Wade ruling and a subsequent 1992 decision that affirmed it were both “egregiously wrong” and that state legislatures should have more leeway to restrict abortion. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority.
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Mississippi s attorney general told the Supreme Court on July 22 that Roe v. Wade was egregiously wrong and should be overturned as she urged the justices to allow a controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect.
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
Mississippi’s attorney general told the Supreme Court on Thursday that Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong” and should be overturned as she urged the justices to allow a controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect.
“The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition” state Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the justices in a new brief, launching the opening salvo in the most important abortion-related dispute the court has heard in decades.
In a Supreme Court brief, the state asks the justices to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Sixteen states have attempted to ban abortions before viability.
The high court agreed in May to hear a challenge to Mississippi s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, giving its new, six-member conservative majority a chance to roll back the 1973 ruling that women have a constitutional right to abortion.
In their sharpest framing of the blockbuster dispute since the appeal was filed at the Supreme Court more than a year ago, Mississippi noted the text of the Constitution does not mention abortion and argued that adherence to Roe was dangerously corrosive to our constitutional system.
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Jul 22, 2021 - 08:00 PM
Mississippi s Attorney General on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, calling the right to abortion egregiously wrong, while also asking the court to uphold a state law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
According to the
New York Times, The court will hear arguments in the case in the fall, giving its newly expanded conservative majority a chance to confront what may be the most divisive issue in American law:
whether the Constitution protects the right to end pregnancies.
Mississippi s 15-week abortion statute was struck down by lower courts, which called it a cynical and calculated assault on abortion rights which are at odds with precedent set by the Supreme Court.