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(WASHINGTON) The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up an abortion rights case seen as a major challenge to Roe v. Wade and what would be the first direct test on the issue for the court s new conservative majority.
The justices said Monday that next term they would hear Mississippi s appeal of lower court decisions striking down a state ban on all abortions after 15 weeks, with exception of medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormality.
The court said it would be considering the question of whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.
The case will likely be argued next fall and decided by June 2022.
The Supreme Court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization beginning in October and a decision on the case will likely come by June 2022. (Photo: Mike Kline/notkalvin/Getty Images)
The United States Supreme court has agreed to take up a major Mississippi abortion case that could directly challenge Roe v. Wade.
The court announced Monday that it will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization beginning in October
and a decision on the case will likely come by June 2022, CNBC reported.
This will be the first major abortion case in which all three of former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court justice appointees participate, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who gained a seat on the court after a contentious confirmation process in October.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the constitutionality of Mississippi’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The high court agreed to consider one question in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: whether all previability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.