A Mississippi abortion law that attempted to limit a woman’s right to choose will now be heard in front of the Supreme Court with its new conservative majority.
The law, which was struck down by the lower courts in that state, would take away the right for women to have an abortion after 15-weeks which exception to severe fetal abnormality or a medical emergency. This obviously tramples on the 1973 SCOTUS ruling Roe v. Wade that said women have the right to an abortion for up to six months of pregnancy or 24 weeks.
The court said Monday it would review next term whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. The court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade declared that a woman has a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy in the first six months when the fetus is incapable of surviving outside the womb.
The test case is from Mississippi, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks, significantly before fetal viability. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative in the country, blocked enforcement of the law, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.
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As mentioned, the incredibly conservative lower court blocked enforcement of the law due to its conflict with Roe vs. Wade. Likewise, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch who were two of the three conservative appointees by former President Donald Trump to the Court dissented and struck down abortion restrictions in Louisiana. Furthermore, Chief Justice John Roberts also joined Trump’s appointees and the then liberal faction in the ruling citing precedent in a previous Texas case.
What’s concerning this time around is a third Trump appointee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett now being part of the court and SCOTUS even willing to hear the case knowing the potentiality of greatly endangering women’s rights in the United States.
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