Mississippi Is Preparing for Its Own Abortion Fight at the Supreme Court
Abortion providers in the state urged justices to strike down a 15-week abortion ban lawmakers passed in 2018
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Before Texas’s six-week abortion ban went into effect earlier this month, many abortion rights advocates predicted that the Supreme Court might use Mississippi’s 15-week ban—which justices agreed to hear in May—to gut Roe v. Wade come winter. Instead the court managed to do so ahead of schedule by failing to strike down S.B. 8, making Roe effectively meaningless for 1 in 10 women of reproductive age in the United States, according to Guttmacher Institute. That said, there’s still plenty left to lose if the court rules in favor of the Mississippi law.
On Monday, abortion providers in the state, the plaintiffs in the suit, urged justices not to “jettison a half-century of settled precedent,” and warned them that doing so would erode the Americans’ confidence in the judiciary.