Mississippi asks US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade

[Galraedia]

Source: CNN

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.

Fitch said the case for overruling Roe is "overwhelming."

Roe v. Wade is the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability, which can occur at around 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/politics/mississippi-roe-v-wade-abortion/index.html

[JohnSJ]

2. I wonder what it means when there are recommendations on an OP like this?

[Wingus Dingus]

3. I take it to mean, "you should read this"...

not necessarily "I like the subject matter".

[JohnSJ]

4. Thank-you, I didn't consider that. Good

[herding cats]

6. I've recommended things I find alarming often.

I want to draw eyes to it and get it on the greatest page for busy people who can't read every story to see.

[JohnSJ]

8. +++

[LuckyLib]

5. Dear Mississippi:

You don't get to ask for anything that remotely affects folks in the rest of the country. You are last in everything -- health care, education, equality for citizens, contributions to the general good. Zip it.

[GB_RN]

7. The Government Of Mississippi

Can officially go fornicate with itself, ingest excrement and expire.

[Lonestarblue]

9. I believe the Republican Supreme Court may have a hard time with the Roe v. Wade issue.

The Court is pro Republican, as it has shown in its rulings overturning voting rights, refusing to do anything about gerrymandering by Republicans, and supporting their extremist religious views. Even the decades-old ruling expanding the rights of gun owners was supporting the Republican position by totally ignoring that little phrase “a well regulated militia” and ignoring that the Second Amendment was written before the US had a military that replaced the need for a militia.

I believe this Court would overturn Roe in a heartbeat, but their decision will come next June before the midterm elections. Overturning Roe risks galvanizes a ton of younger voters who have always taken their right to abortion for granted and could give Democrats a potential election advantage based on the need for Congress to pass a law protecting reproductive rights. They will not want to give Democrats any advantage.

[demigoddess]

10. If you don't like abortion don't have one.

I don't like guns, so I don't own one.