Legal Brief From Mississippi AG Calls for Supreme Court to Undo Abortion Rights

[BeckyDem]

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BY
Chris Walker, Truthout
PUBLISHED
July 23, 2021

The state of Mississippi, in an upcoming legal battle over a restrictive abortion law it passed just a few years ago, is formally asking the United States Supreme Court to overturn its ruling in Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that protected the right to access abortion services across the entirety of the country.

The Court is set to hear arguments in the fall over the legality of the state’s 15-week abortion ban, which lower courts have ruled unconstitutional. Mississippi Republican Attorney General Lynn Fitch, in filing a legal brief for the case this week, is urging justices to overrule the nearly-50-year precedent that protects abortion rights.

Roe v. Wade, along with other Supreme Court opinions protecting abortion access, “are unprincipled decisions that have damaged the democratic process, poisoned our national discourse, plagued the law — and, in doing so, harmed this Court,” Fitch’s legal brief reads.

“Mississippi has stunningly asked the Supreme Court to overturn Roe and every other abortion rights decision in the last five decades,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, in a statement responding to the legal filing made on Thursday. “Today’s brief reveals the extreme and regressive strategy, not just of this law, but of the avalanche of abortion bans and restrictions that are being passed across the country. Their goal is for the Supreme Court to take away our right to control our own bodies and our own futures — not just in Mississippi, but everywhere.”

https://truthout.org/articles/legal-brief-from-mississippi-ag-calls-for-supreme-court-to-undo-abortion-rights/

[AllaN01Bear]

1. again, how does this fix roads ? levies , old decaying pumps,fix schools ?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. The future of Roe and control of the SCOTUS was on the ballot in 2016

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215581561

[BeckyDem]

3. How the Supreme Court Might End Nationwide Legal Abortion

For the first time in decades, the fundamental right to abortion is squarely being attacked in the Supreme Court. On Thursday, Mississippi filed a brief with the court directly asking it to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision establishing a right to abortion.

This hasn’t happened since 1992, in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, when Pennsylvania asked the court to overturn Roe. Since then, as any observer knows, the court has heard many abortion cases, but none has featured the main brief asking the court to upend its precedent in this way. Supplemental briefs written by other groups have certainly made the request in those cases, but having the main party in the case ask the court to do so is different.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/roe-v-wade-abortion-scotus-mississippi-1201208/

[niyad]

5. and the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. Thank you for bringing this to us,

Would you consider cross-posting this in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

[BeckyDem]

6. Done.

[niyad]

7. Thank you.