The Supreme Court docket agreed to listen to the case after it was struck down by two decrease courts (File)
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The state of Mississippi on Thursday requested the Supreme Court docket to overturn the proper to abortion in the US in a authorized transient added to a case set to be heard later within the 12 months.
The case, involving a Mississippi legislation that bans most abortions within the state after 15 weeks of being pregnant, might be heard through the court docket’s subsequent time period which begins in October.
Supreme Court docket selections resembling within the landmark Roe v Wade case, which legalized abortion in the US, “are egregiously improper,” wrote Mississippi Lawyer Common Lynn Fitch in court docket paperwork filed Thursday.
“Abortion as a constitutional proper has no foundation in textual content, construction, historical past or custom,” reads the doc.
“If this court docket doesn’t overrule” the instances legalizing abortion “it ought to at minimal maintain that there isn’t a pre-viability barrier to state prohibitions on abortion and uphold Mississippi’s legislation.”
The Supreme Court docket agreed to listen to the Mississippi case after the legislation was struck down as unconstitutional by two decrease courts.
The 2018 Mississippi legislation prohibits abortions after the fifteenth week besides in instances of a medical emergency or a extreme fetal abnormality. The legislation doesn’t make any exceptions for rape or incest.
This would be the first abortion case thought of by the nation’s highest court docket since former president Donald Trump cemented a conservative majority on the nine-member panel.
Trump’s appointment of three justices locked in a 6-to-3 conservative majority on the court docket and raised the potential of overturning Roe v Wade.
The 1973 determination prohibits states from banning abortion earlier than the time a fetus is viable exterior the womb, which is taken into account to be round 24 weeks.
Lately, nevertheless, a number of Republican-led states have sought to impose restrictive legal guidelines on abortion, forcing many clinics to shut their doorways.
Abortion divides the US inhabitants, with sturdy opposition particularly amongst evangelical Christians, many residing in southern states like Mississippi.
The Heart for Reproductive Rights, an abortion rights advocacy group, referred to as the transient an try and “take away our proper to manage our personal our bodies and our personal futures — not simply in Mississippi, however in all places.”
“Any ruling in favor of Mississippi on this case overturns the core holding of Roe,” it added.
A ruling within the case isn’t anticipated till June 2022.
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