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Anti-abortion activists are closer than ever to achieving their ultimate goal: overturning
Roe v. Wade. This week, they celebrated the news that the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a major abortion case,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO). The case concerns a Mississippi state law that would ban almost all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy well before a fetus is viable. With the Court’s new 6-3 conservative majority, the outcome could be devastating for abortion access.
SCOTUS has been considering whether or not to take up this case for a year and a half. They even conferenced on it 17 times before agreeing to take it up. Now we will find out how much this new 6-3 conservative majority respects precedent, as this case gives the Court an opportunity to overturn close to five decades of legal precedent surrounding abortion rights.
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WASHINGTON, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today the non-profit Population Institute released its
50 State Report Card on Reproductive Health and Rights. The most comprehensive assessment of its kind, it annually tracks multiple indicators of reproductive health and rights, including access to family planning, sex education, and abortion services, across each state.
The new report card finds a large divide between states that are prioritizing reproductive health and rights and access to reproductive health services, vs. those that are seeking to curtail them. Five states got an A, 23 states failed, and for the second year in a row, the U.S. as a whole also failed.