Texas’s near-total abortion ban is bad, but there's an even more serious threat on the near horizon: a direct challenge to Roe from Mississippi that may well succeed at the Supreme Court. jaymichaelson writes
Next month will present the Supreme Court with the opportunity, at long last, to ruin Roe v. Wade. Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times/Redux Texas’s near-total abortion ban has been the greatest rollback of reproductive rights since Roe v. Wade, and it happened seemingly overnight.
What this means, though, is that, as bad as it is, the situation in Texas is likely temporary. As soon as someone sues, there will be state officials to enjoin: the clerks, judges, and other government officials who help the lawsuits proceed. The law will be, practically speaking, unenforceable. But there is a more serious threat on the near horizon: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a direct challenge to Roe that may well succeed at the Supreme Court.
Going still further, Mississippi governor Tate Reeves said in a recent interview that at 15 weeks, “we know that the baby in the womb is practicing breathing, we know that most internal organs have started to form, and we believe that that child is viable outside the womb.” That claim is clearly false: In a 2015 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine of 4,987 babies born before 27 weeks’ gestation, “all infants born before 22 weeks of gestation died within 12 hours after birth.
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