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Mississippi is among a string of GOP-controlled states that have introduced highly restrictive abortion laws in recent years.
In May, the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 majority of conservative justices, agreed to hear the Mississippi case later this year, with a ruling expected by next summer.
Mississippi’s 2018 law bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but it has been ruled against several times in lower courts.
Overturning Roe v Wade, which ruled that states could not ban abortion before the viability of the fetus outside the womb, which Doctors say happens between 24 and 28 weeks of a pregnancy.
The move has been a long-held ambition of religious conservatives and Republican politicians.
WASHINGTON The state of Mississippi on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court in a major case set to be argued in its next term to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that recognized that women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, said in papers filed with the court that the Roe v. Wade ruling and a subsequent 1992 decision that affirmed it were both egregiously wrong and that state legislatures should have more leeway to restrict abortion. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority.
The filing marked the first time that Mississippi, in seeking to revive a restrictive state abortion law blocked by lower courts, made overturning Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide and ended an era in which some states had banned the procedure, a central part of its argument.