{"id":40200,"date":"2021-09-20T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40200"},"modified":"2021-09-20T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:22:46","slug":"supreme-court-to-hear-mississippis-abortion-ban-case-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40200","title":{"rendered":"SUPREME COURT TO HEAR MISSISSIPPI\u2019S ABORTION BAN CASE IN DECEMBER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear arguments Dec. 1 on a Mississippi abortion restriction that poses a direct challenge to the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n<p>Oral arguments will take place just a few months after the court&#8217;s recent move to allow Texas&#8217;s six-week abortion ban to take effect, a ruling that left abortion opponents hopeful about their prospects in the upcoming dispute over Mississippi&#8217;s 15-week ban.<\/p>\n<p>The court agreed in May to take up the dispute, but anticipation over the case&#8217;s timeline has grown exponentially after the court&#8217;s Texas ruling signaled a likelihood that the justices could more formally curtail abortion rights when they decide the Mississippi case, with a decision expected by late June.<\/p>\n<p>Challengers to Mississippi\u2019s 15-week abortion ban say that it should be invalidated under Roe v. Wade, which recognized a constitutional right to abortion before a fetus is viable, typically around 24 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The challengers, a coalition of abortion providers and advocates, won in the lower courts. In 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled Mississippi&#8217;s restriction unconstitutional, prompting the state to appeal to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court announced Monday it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40201,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40200\/revisions\/40201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}