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Mississippi s attorney general told the Supreme Court on July 22 that Roe v. Wade was egregiously wrong and should be overturned as she urged the justices to allow a controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect.
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
Mississippi’s attorney general told the Supreme Court on Thursday that Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong” and should be overturned as she urged the justices to allow a controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect.
“The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition” state Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the justices in a new brief, launching the opening salvo in the most important abortion-related dispute the court has heard in decades.
In a Supreme Court brief, the state asks the justices to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Sixteen states have attempted to ban abortions before viability.
The high court agreed in May to hear a challenge to Mississippi s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, giving its new, six-member conservative majority a chance to roll back the 1973 ruling that women have a constitutional right to abortion.
In their sharpest framing of the blockbuster dispute since the appeal was filed at the Supreme Court more than a year ago, Mississippi noted the text of the Constitution does not mention abortion and argued that adherence to Roe was dangerously corrosive to our constitutional system.
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Jul 22, 2021 - 08:00 PM
Mississippi s Attorney General on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, calling the right to abortion egregiously wrong, while also asking the court to uphold a state law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
According to the
New York Times, The court will hear arguments in the case in the fall, giving its newly expanded conservative majority a chance to confront what may be the most divisive issue in American law:
whether the Constitution protects the right to end pregnancies.
Mississippi s 15-week abortion statute was struck down by lower courts, which called it a cynical and calculated assault on abortion rights which are at odds with precedent set by the Supreme Court.
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Planned Parenthood, which performs more abortions than any other entity in the country, is already taxpayer-funded, yet they somehow still get even more.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) approved funds for Planned Parenthood it was not supposed to, to the tune of $80 million, in the form of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The Trump administration requested the funds back in March 2020.
Last August, then Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) spearheaded an effort to demand accountability on the loans, and if Planned Parenthood knowingly committed fraud to obtain these loans.
Since then, even with Sen. Loeffler out of office and their party now in the majority, Republicans have not let up.