The Mississippi case was the culmination of a generations-long push on the right to overturn or weaken the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on abortion.
Democrats and groups that support abortion rights decried the decision.
, which established a constitutional right to abortion. The effort to roll back that right was aided by President Donald Trump, who was elected in 2016 in part on a promise to name justices who would overturn Roe. Over the course of a single term, Trump managed to put three conservative justices on the high court.
Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, challenged the state law in 2018, asserting it. A 7-2 majority in Roe v. Wade established a constitutional right to abortion and allowed people to exercise the right until the end of the second trimester.
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