US Supreme Court takes up major challenge to abortion rights

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The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider gutting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalised abortion nationwide, taking up Mississippi's bid to revive a Republican-backed state law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

By hearing the case in their next term, which starts in October and ends in June 2022, the justices will look at whether to overturn a central part of the landmark ruling, a long-standing goal of religious conservatives.

Abortion opponents are hopeful that the Supreme Court will narrow or overturn the Roe v. Wade decision. The court moved from a 5-4 to a 6-3 conservative majority after Senate confirmation last year of Republican former President Donald Trump's third appointee, Justice Amy Coney Barrett. After the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson Women's Health Organization, sued to try to block the measure, a federal judge in 2018 ruled against the state. The New Orleans-based fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019 reached the same conclusion, prompting the state to appeal to the Supreme Court.

 

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