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🧵The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a case that could end almost 50 years of guaranteed abortion rights.
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization examines the constitutionality of a law from Mississippi that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, with no exceptions for rape or incest.
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Both anti-abortion and abortion rights advocates believe that the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, may be receptive to Mississippi’s arguments.
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Such a ruling could spell the end of national abortion rights — resulting in a patchwork system across the country, where someone’s ability to access an abortion easily depends entirely on where they live.
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Across the country, abortion access has grown increasingly fragile over the past decade. And a decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would have a monumental impact. 19thnews.org/2021/10/106-ab…

Entire regions of the country — particularly the South and the Midwest — would likely become abortion deserts. 19thnews.org/2021/10/aborti…

States like Illinois, California, Colorado and Kansas could become havens for the procedure, with people traveling hundreds of miles to access care. 19thnews.org/2021/10/kansas…

Meanwhile, the court is still weighing arguments in two other abortion cases, examining whether either abortion providers or the federal government have the right to challenge a Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. 19thnews.org/2021/11/suprem…