UPDATE-Click here to listen to the arguments live
The Supreme Court is set to hear a huge abortion case today.
They will be hearing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which bans abortions after 15 weeks.
It makes no exceptions for rape or incest but does for health emergencies and fetal abnormalities.
The decision would deal a massive blow to Roe v Wade.
Roe v. Wade in the balance: SCOTUS hears challenge to state law banning abortion after 15 weeks | Just The News https://t.co/DU8p0lCvsf
— Just the News (@JustTheNews) December 1, 2021
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge today to a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks in a case that could have momentous implications for the future of the qualified constitutional right to an abortion recognized in the high court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision almost a half-century ago.
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the last operational abortion clinic in Mississippi is challenging the state’s 2018 Gestational Age Act, which bans abortion prior to the age of fetal viability set by the court in Roe, and updated in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, to around 24 weeks.
Enacted in 2018, the Mississippi law hasn’t gone into effect, as a federal district court blocked its enforcement following the lawsuit filed by the abortion clinic. The conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals later upheld that ruling.
While the abortion law doesn’t make exceptions for rape or incest, it does make exceptions for health emergencies and fetal abnormalities.
You can follow the decision on SCOTUSblog:
The court's marshal has gaveled in today's session, and the chief justice has called the case.
Arguing first: Scott Stewart, the solicitor general of Mississippi.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 1, 2021
UPDATE-10:44
BREAKING: Mississippi Solicitor General officially petitions the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade in open court today
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 1, 2021
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