Supreme Court to Take Up Major Abortion Case

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a major abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, from Mississippi. The law in question, the Gestational Age Act, bans abortion after 15 weeks gestation, and the court will decide if these restrictions on pre-viability on elective abortions are unconstitutional. The high court will review a lower court decision that blocked the law from being enforced.

The court only agreed to consider one question that was presented, which simply asks if restrictions before viability are a violation of the constitution. The justices...