Mississippi asks the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade

Posted on AllSides July 22nd, 2021
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Calling Roe v. Wade “egregiously wrong,” Mississippi’s attorney general urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to do away with the constitutional right to abortion and to sustain a state law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The court will hear arguments in the case in the fall, giving its newly expanded conservative majority a chance to confront what may be the most divisive issue in American law: whether the Constitution protects the right to end pregnancies.

Lower courts blocked the Mississippi statute, calling it a cynical and calculated assault...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/us/politics/mississippi-supreme-court-abortion.html

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