{"id":245361,"date":"2021-05-17T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=245361"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:57:15","slug":"mississippi-15-week-abortion-ban-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mississippi-15-week-abortion-ban-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban to be heard by Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supreme Court of the United States announced<\/a> on Monday that it will hear the case surrounding Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban known as the “Gestational Age Act,” HB 1510<\/a>. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/a><\/em>, gives SCOTUS the opportunity to reconsider Roe v. Wade,<\/em>\u00a0the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States in 1973, as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em>, the 1992 Supreme Court case that affirmed Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0and set viability as the standard for when abortion can and cannot be restricted.<\/p>\n

Arguments will likely be heard in the fall of 2021 and a decision on the case is expected by the summer of 2022. This will be the first case focused on abortion limits since the appointments of three conservative-leaning judges to the Court. The case will determine whether pre-viability restrictions on abortions are constitutional.<\/p>\n

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Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act passed in 2018 and prohibits abortions after 15 weeks. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only abortion business in the state, immediately filed suit against the state and the federal district court struck down the law. After an appeal, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the district court that the law was unconstitutional because it restricted abortion prior to viability.<\/p>\n

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