Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments Challenging Roe v. Wade in December

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Arguments in a case challenging the validity of the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that access to abortion is a constitutional right are scheduled to take place in the nationโ€™s highest court near the end of 2021.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Womenโ€™s Health Organization on Dec. 1, the court announced on Sept. 20.

Justices had agreed in May to hear the case, but it hadnโ€™t been known before when the case would be heard.

Mississippi enacted a law in 2018 barring abortions after 15 weeks outside of medical emergencies or the discovery of a severe abnormality in the unborn baby.

U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, an Obama appointee, struck down the law, finding โ€œit is a facially unconstitutional ban on abortions prior to viability.โ€ A trio of 5th Circuit Court of Appeals judges later upheld the ruling.

โ€œIn an unbroken line dating to Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Courtโ€™s abortion cases have established (and affirmed, and re-affirmed) a womanโ€™s right to choose an abortion before viability. States may regulate abortion procedures prior to viability so long as they do not impose an undue burden on the womanโ€™s right, but they may not ban abortions,โ€ U.S. Circuit Court Judge Patrick Higginbotham, a Reagan appointee, wrote in the decision.

That prompted a request in early 2020 for the Supreme Court to analyze the lower court decisions.

In a brief to the court over the summer, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, said the court should overturn Roe v. Wade.

โ€œThe conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition,โ€ Fitch wrote.

Hillary Schneller, senior staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing the Jackson Womenโ€™s Health Organization, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, has said the legislation in question โ€œdefies decades of Supreme Court precedent.โ€

Byย Zachary Stieber

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