A new vision to overturn Roe v. Wade
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🗓️ 30 November 2021
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Summary
It’s a critical week for abortion rights in the United States. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could roll back the protections of Roe v. Wade. But the arguments to gut Roe are coming from the surprising lens of women’s empowerment.
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization goes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The caseputs Mississippi’s 15-week ban on abortions to the test, and it could be the case that defines abortion rights for generations.
When The Lily reporter Caroline Kitchener first read a brief in Dobbs written by the attorney general of Mississippi, Lynn Fitch, she found an argument against abortion that she hadn’t heard before. Fitch was urging the court to use the Dobbs case to gut Roe v. Wade because restricting abortion access, Fitch said, empowers women.
Kitchener reports on the landmark case before the court, and examines the pitch advocates like Fitch are making with their antiabortion arguments — and why some people aren’t buying it.
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| 0:35.6 | This is potentially the most important week for abortion rights in decades. |
| 0:44.8 | Caroline Kitchener covers women in gender for the Lily. |
| 0:48.4 | The case, Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization, |
| 0:52.0 | is gonna go before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. |
| 0:55.3 | In that case, the Supreme Court is gonna hear arguments about a 15-week abortion ban out of Mississippi. |
| 1:03.2 | That is a law that proposes banning abortion after 15 weeks in the state. |
| 1:10.7 | The law was enacted in 2018 and never actually took a fact it was immediately blocked. |
| 1:17.3 | But this law is pretty similar to all of these gestational bans that we've been seeing |
| 1:24.7 | all across the country. They're different week numbers, but the premise is the same. |
| 1:30.8 | Now, Roe v. Wade protects somebody's constitutional right to an abortion |
| 1:37.1 | before a viability. Well, 15 weeks, significantly before a viability. |
| 1:44.1 | So, potentially what's at stake here is Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:48.1 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:55.8 | I'm Martine Powers. It's Tuesday, November 30th. Today, we hear from the Mississippi public |
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