Restrict abortion. women heard of 15-week abortions in mississippi in december and many court analysts i talked to said they wouldn t take this case if they didn t want to trim back roe v. wade at the very least. after hearing their oral arguments back in december court analysts on both sides thought it is probably most likely the supreme court would okay something like a 15-week ban, so moving up when the court said a person has a constitutional right to an abortion from about 24 weeks to 15 weeks. most people didn t think the court would go as far as overturning roe v. wade. and certainly not as far as the ideological draft opinion that politico got from samuel alito. so if that is what the court decide, the court will come up with the most extreme version essentially, of what analysts thought it would do. from there, that motivates republicans in congress to do two things, one, rally their base, say we re almost there, because it s holy grail that we ve been trying to get for