Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Bid to Slash Abortion Rights
- Court to consider reviving Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban
- Barrett’s first abortion case set for high court’s next term
Demonstrators outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2020
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider gutting the constitutional right to abortion, agreeing Monday to hear Mississippi’s bid to ban the procedure in almost all cases after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
The move suggests the court’s strengthened conservative wing may be ready to roll back the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide. The clash, which the court will hear in the nine-month term that starts in October, will be its first abortion case since Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed. The decision to take the case required the votes of four justices.