The Supreme Court Should Overturn Roe's Viability Standard | Opinion
Steve Jacobs
, Program Director, Illinois Right to Life
On 5/25/21 at 6:00 AM EDT
With the U.S. Supreme Court's recent announcement that it will hear
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case that reviews the constitutionality of Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, the Court will consider a challenge to
Roe v. Wade for the first time in 29 years.
In 1992's
Roe—the Court connected
Roe to
Brown v. Board of Education, describing them as the only two cases in history in which the Court chose to intervene in a national controversy in hopes of granting a constitutional mandate that both sides could accept. Where