3 lawyers readying arguments in high court abortion case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in an abortion case brought by Mississippi.[Mark Fischer / CC BY-SA 2.0 ]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court justices considering a major abortion case Wednesday will hear from just three lawyers: one representing the state of Mississippi, another representing Mississippi’s only abortion clinic and the last representing the Biden administration.
The three are scheduled to appear before the justices for just over an hour’s worth of arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, though the arguments will likely go longer.
Mississippi is asking the justices to overturn two seminal decisions, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, decisions that say women have a constitutional right to abortion before a fetus is viable.