The political storm that could ensue if the Supreme Court overturns lower courts and backs Mississippi’s efforts to ban abortions starting at 15 weeks of pregnancy could see other states move to restrict abortions and legal challenges that might ultimately take on the landmark, 50-year-old Roe vs. Wade ruling that women have a constitutional right to abortion.
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WASHINGTON — It’s been nearly 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court, in its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, decided that women have a constitutional right to abortion.
Now, the court has agreed to take on a major abortion case from Mississippi that could dramatically alter decades of rulings on abortion rights and ultimately lead to dramatic restrictions on abortion access.