When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments over Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, it focused on a single question: Whether “fetal viability” is legitimate criteria for how far states may go to restrict women’s access to abortion.
Fetal viability is at the center of Mississippi abortion case. Here’s why.
Conservative justices questioned that legal and scientific framework in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that could change abortion rights
Here’s why that’s important and what it means for the case currently before the court, and more broadly, for abortion rights in the United States.
