It’s likely that the High Court won’t render an official decision on abortion rights until next summer.
Abortion
If the Supreme Court upholds Mississippi’s 15-week ban, the decision would almost certainly weaken “Roe v. Wade.”
Democratic lawmakers in Michigan introduced legislation this week that would repeal a law that criminalizes abortion.
Texas’s near-total abortion ban could be a model for targeting other constitutional rights.
The law “is clearly unconstitutional under longstanding Supreme Court precedent,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
In places like Ohio, partisan gerrymandering has paved the way for aggressive abortion restrictions.
If abortion protections are undone by the Supreme Court, a person from Texas may have to travel 525 miles for services.
“It’s an incredible long shot” that the Supreme Court would agree to an injunction on the law, one legal scholar said.
Reproductive rights advocates celebrated the ruling, but noted that the fight isn’t over.
Many groups are urging Biden to go further in his supposed “whole-of-government” response to attacks on abortion access.