Supreme Court to take up Mississippi challenge to Roe v. Wade

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15. The Guardian has an interesting article today about possible impacts of overturning Roe.

One point the article made was how state laws have changed since Roe became law. They have become far worse for women, and most red states have trigger laws that go into effect as soon as Roe is overturned to immediately criminalize any action related to an abortion.

“The nation’s preeminent association for defense attorneys has also published a report ahead of the oral arguments that lays out a future in which the US could undertake “rampant criminalization” and “mass incarceration on an unprecedented scale” in the name of the unborn.

“States are laying the groundwork now, and have been laying the groundwork for criminal penalties that are completely different,” than the pre-Roe era, said Lindsay A Lewis, a criminal defense attorney in New York who co-authored a report on abortion for the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys (NACDL), the first such report in the organization’s history.

“They are so much more advanced, and so much harsher than what existed before Roe was enacted.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/29/us-abortion-supreme-court-roe-v-wade