Supreme Court Abortion Case May Reverse a Key Aspect of Roe v. Wade

Tyler O'Neil-Opinion : May 17, 2021
PJ Media

The vast majority of Americans (87 percent) have said that the question of when life begins is important to the abortion issue and 81 percent have said biologists should decide where to draw the line. Ninety-five percent of biologists have said that human life begins at conception.

[PJMedia.com] On Monday, the Supreme Court announced its decision to take up a case challenging a key aspect of the alleged right to abortion under Roe v. Wade (1973). (Screengrab image)

The Court will take up Thomas Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, specifically focusing on Question 1 in the petition for the writ of certiorari. That question concerns "whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional."

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, asked the Court to consider whether or not the state's 2018 law banning abortions after 15 weeks gestation is constitutional. Fitch argued that the Court must resolve contradictions in its decisions over when viability begins.

In Roe v. Wade, the Court ruled that the Constitution protected abortion up until the point of an unborn baby's viability outside the womb. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the Court has the potential to overrule a key aspect of the right to abortion under Roe. Various states, including Mississippi, have banned abortion before the Court's definition of viability, noting that an unborn baby has a detectible heartbeat and can feel pain early into pregnancy... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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