Mississippi, however, banned abortion after 15 weeks. Wade and subsequent Supreme Court precedents say that states cannot ban abortion before the point at which a fetus is considered “viable,” typically around 22 weeks. “The court that we have now is the result of the long-game political strategy of the pro-life movement,” Quigley said.ĭetails: Roe v.That moment has arrived largely because conservative state legislatures kept passing new anti-abortion bills year after year, even when they were mostly being struck down in the courts, to keep the controversy alive - while Republicans in Washington maintained a laser focus, especially during the Trump administration, on taking control of the judiciary. Anthony List, an anti-abortion advocacy group.
“This is the most significant moment in two generations,” said Mallory Quigley, a spokeswoman for the Susan B. And with such a staunch conservative majority, the court seems virtually certain to take at least one of those options.But between them, they present the court with a whole lot of ways to rule in favor of tighter abortion restrictions. The big picture: Mississippi’s law and Texas’ law are structured quite differently, and the two cases raise different legal questions.
1, the court is set to hear arguments in a separate case, challenging Mississippi’s ban on abortion after the 15th week of a pregnancy. 1 - a dramatically accelerated timeline that compresses into just a few days a process that normally takes months. Why it matters: All of this is likely to end with significant new restrictions on abortion and a clear path for Republican-led states to win the next big abortion cases, too - the culmination of a long and bitter fight for control of the judiciary.ĭriving the news: The court on Friday agreed to hear part of a challenge to Texas’ highly unusual abortion ban. This is the moment the conservative legal movement has been building toward for decades: The solidly conservative Supreme Court is about to hear two major abortion cases within a month of each other.
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