Supreme Court will hear challenge to pro-life law that could reverse Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a court case concerning Mississippi’s law that prohibits abortions after 15 weeks.
While President Trump is no longer in office, his appointment of three conservative Supreme Court Justices may soon pay off for pro-life and conservative activists.
“The Supreme Court agrees to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, a challenge to Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban,” Slate reporter Mark Stern tweeted. “This may well mark the beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade.
Roe is a 1973 Supreme Court case that allowed for states to legalize abortion through all 9 months of pregnancy based on vague standards of “health.”
The Court announced today that Dobbs had been accepted for its docket.
Mississippi asked SCOTUS “ to rule on whether all bans on pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional,” according to scotusblog.com, which tracks Supreme Court cases.
The case will be heard in the fall. Meanwhile, pro-life groups hailed the decision.
“Hey hey, ho ho. Roe v. Wade is going to go!” Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins tweeted today.
“This is a landmark opportunity for the Supreme Court to recognize the right of states to protect unborn children from the horrors of painful late-term abortions,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony List said.
Planned Parenthood, predictably, is worried that Justice Amy Coney Barrett will deliver the final vote to allow Mississippi’s law, and other abortion restrictions, to stand.
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