[Religious right ray cray] on SCOTUS takes up Mississippi abortion case that could limit Roe v. Wade

[Soph0571]

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a key abortion case next term concerning a controversial Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks, rekindling a potentially major challenge to Roe v. Wade at the majority conservative court. Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, which then-Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican, signed into law in 2018, made exceptions only for medical emergencies or cases in which there is a "severe fetal abnormality," but not for instances of rape or incest. A federal judge in Mississippi struck down the law in November 2018, and the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in December 2019.

[link:https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/17/politics/supreme-court-abortion-mississippi/index.html|]

TRMS covered this last night. The analysis was spot on. Why have SCOTUS agreed to hear a case on settled law, when there have been no conflicting decisions in lower courts - where the law has been struck down over and over - why do they want to hear this case? *soph strokes chin* Oh wait. I forgot. With all the shit going on with the neo GOP, the insurrection and the new Jim Crow voting laws, the fact that the far right religious cray cray in local GOP parties and on the highest court in the land, have wet dreams about introducing a theocratic dominium with the bible as the founding documents and the constitution going back the good old days of being all about male, pale, stale landowners cause *shrugs* to women and their rights has not has the focus it deserves. If this stands the landscape for women across republican run states is perilous in the extreme. First this, what next? Contraception? Punishment for sex not in a marital context? Prison sentences if you travel across state lines for reproductive justice - I can pretty much guarantee that will be a real thing because the men who want to control women's choices also delight in punishing women who refuse to comply with their violent patriarchal, misogynistic, sexist man is the head of the house who needs to be obeyed bollocks. I am not being hyperbolic.

[samnsara]

1. if they dont take it up wont that draconian law stand?

[Cosmo Blues]

2. No

Lower courts threw it out so if they didn't take it up the lower court rulings would stand

[Cosmo Blues]

3. Biden has a commission

Looking into reform of the High Court. Hopefully if this ruling doesn't go our way we'llll have four justices ready to be nominated to expand the court and quelch the far right Court

[abqtommy]

4. Fascists are very persistent and take the long view. Sometimes they win and it's up to

the rest of us to see that they don't.