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WASHINGTON, July 22 (Xinhua) The attorney general in southern U.S. state Mississippi on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade when reviewing the state s ban on virtually all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
In her 60-page brief, Lynn Fitch, a Republican, explicitly set the dispute over Mississippi s state law on a collision course with the landmark 1973 decision in Roe that first articulated the constitutional right to abortion, calling the highest court s precedent on abortion egregiously wrong. This Court should overrule Roe and Casey, Fitch wrote, referring also to the court s 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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.
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Zoey Deutch laughs by phone from Los Angeles. The actor’s voice is bright, indefatigable a good thing, as we are talking about the historically underserved matter of women’s health care. Deutch, who grew up in Hollywood circles (her mother is the actor-director
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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.
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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.