{"id":18860,"date":"2021-05-17T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=18860"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:06:14","slug":"mississippi-abortion-us-supreme-court-to-hear-major-abortion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/05\/17\/mississippi-abortion-us-supreme-court-to-hear-major-abortion-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi abortion: US Supreme Court to hear major abortion case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s 15-week ban on abortion in a major case that will be closely watched across the US.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The verdict could upend the legal right to abortion laid out in the court’s 1973 landmark Roe v Wade ruling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It will be the first abortion case heard by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic conservative who then-President Trump nominated in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The court is ideologically split, with conservatives holding a 6-3 majority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The case, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, challenges the constitutionality of abortions performed after week 15 of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At issue in the trial, which is expected to take place in the coming months, is whether a foetus is viable outside the womb after 15 weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In announcing the decision to hear the case, the Supreme Court said they would review whether “all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If Mississippi’s ban is upheld by the Supreme Court, it could pave the way for further abortion restrictions that have been pushed for by conservatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Alarm bells are ringing loudly about the threat to reproductive rights,” said Nancy Northup from the Center for Reproductive Rights after the trial was announced.<\/p>\n

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What is Roe v Wade?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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The 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalised abortion in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By a vote of seven to two, the court justices ruled that governments lacked the power to prohibit abortions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The court’s judgement was based on the decision that a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice in family matters as protected by the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The case created the “trimester” system that:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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