The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case Dec. 1 involving a restrictive Mississippi abortion law — marking a possible test of the justices’ position on the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion across the nation.
Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act, passed in 2018 but blocked by two federal courts, allows abortion after 15 weeks “only in medical emergencies or for severe fetal abnormality” and has none of the usual exceptions. If performed outside those parameters, doctors will have their medical licenses suspended or revoked and may be subject to additional penalties and fines, CNN reported.
The high court decision in 1973 ruled abortions were permitted before viability, at around 24 weeks of a pregnancy.
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