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Roe v. Wade.
In an unsigned order, the court said that it would hear the case but limited its scope to the first question presented in the petition, which is whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortion are unconstitutional. The court will not consider the other two questions, which related to scrutiny of abortion restrictions.
The court s acceptance of the case electrified the anti-abortion movement, with many leaders hoping that it would signal the end of a decades-long battle to send the abortion question back to individual states. States should be allowed to craft laws that are in line with both public opinion on this issue as well as basic human compassion, instead of the extreme policy that
The Supreme Court will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization beginning in October and a decision on the case will likely come by June 2022. (Photo: Mike Kline/notkalvin/Getty Images)
The United States Supreme court has agreed to take up a major Mississippi abortion case that could directly challenge Roe v. Wade.
The court announced Monday that it will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization beginning in October
and a decision on the case will likely come by June 2022, CNBC reported.
This will be the first major abortion case in which all three of former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court justice appointees participate, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who gained a seat on the court after a contentious confirmation process in October.
“This is a landmark opportunity for the Supreme Court to recognize the right of states to protect unborn children from the horrors of painful late-term abortions,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, one of the largest anti-abortion advocacy groups.
The SBA List, along with many other anti-abortion organizations, has been pushing since last year for the court to grant certiorari, especially after the Senate confirmed former President Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett. But when the court continued to
list and relist the case for its Friday conferences without any movement, some opponents of abortion began
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FDA says medication abortion drug can be distributed by mail during pandemic
The Biden administration is removing a requirement that one of the drugs involved in medication abortion be dispensed in person during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The move, freeing up a type of non-surgical abortion effective earlier in pregnancy, further expands abortion access under President Joe Biden and marks a victory for the slew of abortion rights groups, medical groups and congressional Democrats that have put pressure on the administration in recent months to go further in reducing barriers to abortion.
Access to mifepristone has been at the center of a legal fight during the pandemic. In response to a lawsuit last summer, federal courts blocked the requirement the drug be dispensed in person, citing dangers of Covid-19 transmission. The Supreme Court, siding with the Trump administration, later reinstated the requirement.