Wed Nov 24, 2021 – 8:21 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The attorney who will argue against the “constitutional right” to abortion in the monumental Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case in the U.S. Supreme Court next month had previously clerked for staunchly pro-life Justice Clarence Thomas and served in the Trump administration’s Justice Department.
The U.S. Supreme Court had announced in May it would hear the case, which concerns Mississippi’s HB 1510 law banning abortions later than 15 weeks gestation for any reason other than physical medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormalities.
Scott Grant Stewart was appointed Mississippi’s solicitor general in March and will lead the pro-life fight in Dobbs v. Jackson when oral arguments begin December 1.
The Supreme Court is expected to address the legality of the current precedent for legalized abortion when it hears the Dobbs case. A deluge of amicus briefs have called upon the Court to immediately overturn both Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), the two landmark cases which established and affirmed the “constitutional right” to pre-viability abortion throughout all 50 U.S. states.
Pro-life and pro-abortion advocates alike have recognized Dobbs v. Jackson as having the
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