The Supreme Court’s Mississippi Abortion Case: What to Know

Update 5/3/22: Last night, Politico reported on a leaked draft majority opinion that revealed the Supreme Court has voted to overrule the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Justice Samuel Alito writes in the leaked document. If the leaked draft is adopted, it will rule in favor of Mississippi in its 15-week abortion ban. The court’s decision won’t be final until the decision is published, likely this summer. Original story 5/17/21: On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to review a major abortion case from Mississippi. In short, the state of Mississippi is trying to… Read Full Article