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On Thursday, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed a brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn both
Roe v. Wade and
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, two landmark Supreme Court decisions in 1973 and 1992, respectively, in a push for the Court to allow a ban on most abortion after 15 weeks in Mississippi.
The brief, written for
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is published on the Supreme Court’s website. The brief pertains specifically to Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act first introduced in 2018. The Gestational Age Act would ban abortion statewide in Mississippi in most circumstances after 15 weeks. The exceptions to this law are severe fetal abnormality or medical emergencies. The law was struck down by two lower courts, as it conflicts with abortion legislation like