The Anti-Abortion Movement Faces a Major Opportunity in Their Fight Against Roe v. Wade
Anti-abortion advocates are hoping that their holy grail could finally be within reach, cheering Mississippi’s new push to get the Supreme Court to overturn the 48-year-old Roe v. Wade decision.
While the state’s maximalist arguments against the landmark abortion rights ruling may not prevail even with conservatives holding a 6-3 majority on the court, the right sees this as its best opportunity in years.
On Thursday, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) filed a brief with the Supreme Court in a case involving a challenge to the state’s law banning elective abortions after 15 weeks. Her office argued that the court’s decisions in Roe and the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey solidifying a constitutional right for women to obtain abortions were wrongly decided.
