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WATCH: Planned Parenthood investigations show need to uphold Mississippi pro-life law

Updated: November 23, 2021 at 5:57 pm EST  See Comments

Tue Nov 23, 2021 – 4:04 pm EST

(LifeSiteNews) — The pro-life Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has weighed in on the Supreme Court’s upcoming review of a Mississippi law banning abortion at 15 weeks, arguing that the scandals its undercover investigations have exposed underscore the need to uphold protections for babies in this gestational window.

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.

Pro-lifers hope the case will result in the overturn of longstanding pro-abortion judicial precedent, and finally allow states and the elected branches of government to directly prohibit abortion. Oral arguments are slated to begin December 1. 

“The unborn babies Mississippi is trying to protect with this law are the same age as those most at risk of being trafficked for

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