Wed Dec 1, 2021 – 10:00 am EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Oral arguments have begun in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and can be viewed live right here, as the U.S. Supreme Court considers the fate of Roe v. Wade and abortion-on-demand in America.
Dobbs concerns Mississippi’s HB 1510 law banning abortions from being committed past 15 weeks for any reason other than physical medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormalities. After its enactment in 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed it unconstitutional because of an “unbroken line dating to Roe v. Wade,” the 1973 ruling which imposed on all fifty states a “right” to pre-viability abortion.
Leading the defense of HB 1510 is Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Grant Stewart, who will make the case that judicial precedent asserting a “right” to abortion is “egregiously wrong” with “no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition.” The state further argues that in addition to its legal bankruptcy, the legal regime Roe set into motion has “proven hopelessly unworkable.”
Pro-lifers hope the case will result in the overturn of longstanding pro-abortion judicial precedent that has long prevented states and the elected branches of government from
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