Supreme Court to take up Mississippi challenge to Roe v. Wade [View all]
Source: NBC News
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will take up the most important showdown over abortion rights in at least three decades, a direct challenge out of Mississippi to Roe v. Wade's landmark holding that the Constitution provides a right of access to abortion.
It's the case opponents of abortion have long sought and advocates of abortion rights have dreaded, coming before a strongly conservative lineup of justices. Three were appointed by then-President Donald Trump, who said he would choose nominees willing to overturn Roe.
"If Roe is reversed, almost half the states in America would strictly limit abortion and perhaps ban it altogether," said Nancy Northup, the president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which supports abortion rights.
The court has yet to rule in a separate case on a Texas law known as S.B. 8 that bans abortion after about the sixth week of pregnancy. The justices must decide whether two lawsuits challenging the unique structure of that law, which delegates enforcement to private lawsuits, can proceed.
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