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Dobbs v. Jackson Women s Health and decide the fate of a 15-week abortion ban from Mississippi, known as the Gestational Age Act. Not only is the Court hearing a case to do with a gestational ban, but one which could directly challenge
Roe v. Wade.
The media have been quick to remind people that Americans support
Roe and don t want it overturned. While that s true, there s more to this story, a lot more.
The problem with such poll analysis is apparent in the first paragraph. At issue is the state’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, about two months earlier than Roe and subsequent rulings, such as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, allow, one sentence reads.
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The immediate reports out of Washington came and went so quickly in today’s blurred torrents of news that many missed the far-reaching and momentous social and political impacts of a recent, one-sentence statement from the Supreme Court.
The Court, meaning at least four justices, agreed to take up Mississippi’s new law limiting abortions as early as 15 weeks, as my Townhall Media colleague Ed Morrissey wrote about Friday at Hot Air. The court said in its next term beginning in October it would consider “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.”
That’s immediately important because numerous states are moving to target the abortion business well before the viability threshold that’s generally considered to begin at 24 weeks.
FIVE YEARS ago, on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who would “automatically” overturn
Roe v Wade, the ruling from 1973 that established a constitutional right to abortion. Although nothing is automatic at the Supreme Court, Mr Trump’s promise seems close to fruition. During his term in office Mr Trump transformed the tribunal by appointing three new justices, giving conservatives a 6-3 majority. And on May 17th the court announced it will consider the constitutionality of a Mississippi abortion ban passed in 2018 a case that tees up
Roe’s reversal.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Monday to take up an abortion case out of Mississippi – and an attorney with The Heritage Foundation says all eyes are on Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the newest member of the court.
The court s decision to consider Mississippi s Gestational Age Act – according to The Associated Press – sets up a showdown over abortion, probably in the fall, with a more conservative court seemingly ready to dramatically alter nearly 50 years of pro-abortion rulings. The Gestational Age Act was passed in 2018 and bans abortions after 15 weeks, except for two minor circumstances that are exceptions to the rule, explains Sarah Parshall Perry, legal fellow for The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. We have no idea how Amy Coney Barrett will make good on her promises to interpret the Constitution from an
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.