Mississippi’s Attorney General Lynn Fitch has just filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn
Roe v. Wade and allow for individual states to determine the options for life and abortion. The case,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is related to a Mississippi law that was enacted to ban abortions after 15-weeks.
Of course, lower courts struck down the law citing Supreme Court precedents. So, Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to intervene and hear the case. The ACLJ joined Mississippi and filed an amicus brief in order to encourage the Court to hear the case and put the Constitution before the misguided pro-abortion precedents. The Court agreed to do so and will hear this case this fall.
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The House votes to increase the number of visas for Afghans who have helped U.S. troops.
Representative Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger, spearheaded legislation that would expand the number of visas available to Afghans who helped the U.S. military during the 20-year war.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to expand a visa program for Afghans who are facing retribution for helping American troops and diplomats during the 20-year war in Afghanistan, moving to allow more of them to immigrate to the United States quickly as the Biden administration races to evacuate them.
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.