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The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to a Mississippi law that prohibits nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. That means that
Dobbs will be the first abortion case to be fully briefed and argued before the Supreme Court since Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation last October.
Barrett is an outspoken opponent of abortion, and she joined a Court that almost certainly already had five votes to roll back abortion rights before her confirmation gave Republicans a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court.
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Today the US Supreme Court announced it would take up the issue of abortion in the upcoming fall term in a case that promises to be significant.
The case is called Jackson Women’s Health Organization vs. Dobbs. This is the background from the case:
On March 19, 2018, Mississippi enacted House Bill 1510, entitled the “Gestational Age Act” (“the Act”).1 The Act provides that, in most cases, an abortion cannot be performed until a physician first determines and documents a fetus’s probable gestational age. Then,
[e]xcept in a medical emergency or in the case of a severe fetal abnormality, a person shall not perform, induce, or attempt to perform or induce an abortion of an unborn human being if the probable gestational age of the unborn human being has been determined to be greater than fifteen (15) weeks.
âItâs . a shot in the back to womenâ: Activists discuss SCOTUS decision to hear Miss. abortion ban challenge This photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Source: AP Photo/Susan Walsh) By Anthony Warren | May 17, 2021 at 12:57 PM CDT - Updated May 17 at 1:57 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights says alarm bells should be going off for Americans who want abortion to remain safe and legal.
The center held a teleconference Monday to discuss the U.S. Supreme Courtâs decision to take up a case challenging Mississippiâs 15-week abortion ban.
Supreme Court to Hear Historic Mississippi Abortion Case
17 May 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide if state laws banning most abortions are unconstitutional, in a major case challenging new Mississippi abortion restrictions.
The petition filed at the Court asks “whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional” in the U.S., posing the most significant challenge in decades to the right to abortion created by the Supreme Court in its 1973
Roe v. Wade
decision.
The Supreme Court relisted this petition for conference more than 20 times. The Court wrestled since October on if it should take this case, and there were lesser questions they could have tackled, but in the end, they decided to take up the broadest version of the issue.