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.
Mississippi asks US Supreme Court to overturn landmark Roe v Wade abortion rights ruling
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