In Challenge To Roe, Supreme Court To Review Mississippi Abortion Law
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Source: NPR
With Roe v. Wade hanging by a thread, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a major rollback of abortion rights. It is the second time in weeks that the court's new conservative majority has signaled a willingness to reconsider long-established legal doctrine, this time on abortion, and just weeks ago, on guns.
The court said Monday it would review next term whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. The court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade declared that a woman has a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy in the first six months of her pregnancy when the fetus is incapable of surviving outside the womb.
The test case is from Mississippi, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks, significantly before fetal viability. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative in the country, blocked enforcement of the law, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.
The Mississippi appeal has been sitting on the court's docket awaiting disposition since last fall, about a month before Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a week before the presidential election. There is no indication of why the court stayed its hand for so long, but the case was listed on the weekly conference for discussion by the justices 17 times before Monday's announcement...
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/17/997478374/supreme-court-to-review-mississippi-abortion-ban
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appalachiablue
(41,047 posts)Warpy
(110,900 posts)I've seen several wherein the woman was 20 weeks along but there was no chance she'd have made it another 4 weeks, killing two instead of one.
But hey, these ignorant hayseeds would far rather believe their preachers than they would doctors who have actually seen these things. They are absolutely convinced women are aborting during the last month because the due date conflicts with a hair appointment.
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