Texas' six-week ban eroded Roe v. Wade, but Mississippi's 15-week law could still gut it completely
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 gutcome winter. Instead the court managed to do so ahead of schedule by failing to strike down S.B. 8, makingeffectively 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.
“Unless the Court is to be perceived as representing nothing more than the preferences of its current membership, it is critical that judicial protection hold firm absent the most dramatic and unexpected changes in law or fact,” plaintiffs wrote in Monday’s brief. Mississippi’s law takes up the question of whether states can regulate—or, in this case, make outright illegal—abortions that occur before fetal viability. As Jessica Mason Pieklo explained at Rewire earlier this year, the court has answered this question before, not in
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