Red flags fly as Supreme Court hears arguments on Mississippi abortion ban
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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday on Mississippi’s law explicitly attempting to get Roe v. Wade overturned, and, as expected, the red flags are flying. The Mississippi law bans abortion after 15 weeks gestation, well before thRed flags fly as Supreme Court hears arguments on Mississippi abortion ban
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday on Mississippi’s law explicitly attempting to get Roe v. Wade overturned, and, as expected, the red flags are flying. The Mississippi law bans abortion after 15 weeks gestation, well before the standard of fetal viability that the court has long held. The court’s six right-wing justices have the option to either do away with Roe’s protection of reproductive freedom altogether or to do away with the viability standard, putting into place a newly slippery slope that allows the 15-week Mississippi ban but not, say, the six-week ban currently in Texas law. Read more