What to listen for as Supreme Court weighs the right to abortion and Roe vs. Wade
by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
Nov 30, 2021
3 minutes
WASHINGTON â The Supreme Court's new conservative majority on Wednesday will weigh the fate of a famous liberal precedent: the Roe vs. Wade decision and the right of pregnant women to choose abortion.
Lawyers for Mississippi will defend a law that bans abortions after 15 weeks, and they will urge the court to go further and overrule the right to abortion set in 1973.
The nine justices and the attorneys will gather in a nearly empty beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern.
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