Mississippi’s attorney general filed a brief with the US Supreme Court on Thursday arguing that the high court’s 1973 ruling in
Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong” and should be overturned. Attorney General Lynn Fitch urged the justices to not only reverse lower court rulings blocking a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, but to use the case to overturn the landmark ruling that established the legal right to abortion.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
“Under the Constitution, may a State prohibit elective abortions before viability? Yes. Why? Because nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion,” Fitch wrote in the brief. “The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition,” she added.
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The court held in Roe v Wade that women have a right to an abortion, a ruling was later reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v Casey in 1992.
“Roe and Casey are egregiously wrong. The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition,” wrote Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch in the brief.
The legal battle was brought by Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state’s only abortion clinic, and a doctor who provides abortions.
They challenged the state’s Gestational Age Act enacted in 2018. The law bans abortions after 15 weeks unless there was a medical emergency or severe abnormality within the fetus.
Mississippi asks Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade; says 1973 decision was egregiously wrong
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JACKSON, Miss. Mississippi s attorney general told the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday its 1973 landmark decision in Roe v. Wade was egregiously wrong and should be overturned.
The comments came as Attorney General Lynn Fitch urged the justices to allow Mississippi s controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect.
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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.