The state of Mississippi has urged the US Supreme Court in a major case set to be argued in its next term to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling that recognised women have a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.
The court in May agreed to take up the Mississippi case and will hear it in its term that begins in October. The justices are likely to hear oral arguments in November, with a ruling due by the end of June 2022.
Mississippi's Republican-backed 2018 law bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Lower courts ruled against the law, which legislators enacted with full knowledge that it was a direct challenge to Roe v Wade. The court in its 1992 decision, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, reaffirmed the ruling and prohibited laws that place an"undue burden" on a woman's ability to obtain an abortion.
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