WASHINGTON, July 29, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) raised eyebrows across the pro-life community this week with the amicus brief it submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on its upcoming review of Mississippi’s fifteen-week abortion ban, which preemptively endorses a hypothetical ruling that does not overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Court announced in May that it would be hearing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which 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 50 states a “right” to pre-viability abortion.
Various pro-life public officials, scholars, and activists have filed amicus briefs urging the Supreme Court to directly overturn Roe and 1992’s Planned Parenthood v. Casey (which opened the door to some abortion regulations while reaffirming the “right” to abort itself), including briefs by the attorneys general of Mississippi and Missouri, a brief by Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Mike Lee, a separate brief by 228 other
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