“The Supreme Court on Wednesday signaled that it is on the verge of a major shift in its abortion jurisprudence and is likely to uphold a Mississippi law that mostly prohibits the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy,” the Washington Post reports.
“Whether that would mean overruling Roe v. Wade’s finding that women have a fundamental right to end their pregnancies was unclear. But none of the six conservatives who make up the court’s majority expressed support for maintaining the court’s rule that states may not prohibit abortion before the point of fetal viability, which is generally estimated to be between 22 and 24 weeks.”
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