HUGE VICTORY: Supreme Court Takes Up Major Abortion Case Next Term That Could Limit Roe v. Wade
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court is decided to take up a major abortion case next term. |
| 0:07.5 | It's just been announced that could limit Roe v. Wade. |
| 0:11.6 | The Supreme Court agreed to take up this major abortion case next term concerning a |
| 0:16.4 | controversial, what many referred to in the media's controversial Mississippi law, that |
| 0:21.3 | banned most abortions after 15 weeks, rekindling a potentially major challenge to Roe v. Wade |
| 0:27.8 | at the majority conservative court. |
| 0:31.4 | Now Mississippi led the way with their 15 week abortion ban. |
| 0:35.5 | You can't have an abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. |
| 0:39.7 | Governor then Governor Phil Bryant signed into law this bill in 2018. |
| 0:45.6 | It made exceptions only for medical emergencies or cases in which there is a severe fetal abnormality, |
| 0:54.4 | but not for instances of rape or incest. |
| 0:58.6 | Federal judge had missed to be struck down the law in November of 18. |
| 1:02.4 | And the fifth U.S. Circuit Court repeals upheld that ruling in December of 19. |
| 1:06.8 | After being rescheduled for the court's consideration in conference over a dozen times, the case |
| 1:13.8 | could present a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:16.8 | Now that 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide prior to viability |
| 1:24.3 | is the key misunderstanding in this country of Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:30.5 | Viability was what was argued in Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:35.0 | If the child cannot survive, then it's not viable. |
| 1:40.6 | Therefore they said you could abort it. |
| 1:43.4 | Now viability, which can occur around 24 weeks of pregnancy, that is what they said. |
| 1:49.1 | Now let's go back to this case so you understand Roe v. Wade. |
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