July 27, 2021

Mississippi AG Files Brief Asking Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch
Last Thursday, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed a brief with the Supreme Court as part of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In it, she asks the Supreme Court to overturn its two infamous rulings on abortion: Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is the abortion lobby's challenge to a Missippi law banning most elective abortions after 15 weeks. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case this fall, and many pundits believe that this case could cause the Supreme Court to reconsider the standing precedent on abortion.

Fitch argued in her brief that the Roe and Casey decisions created “a special-rules regime for abortion jurisprudence that has left these cases out of step with other Court decisions and neutral principles of law applied by the Court.”

“As a result, state legislatures, and the people they represent, have lacked clarity in passing laws to protect legitimate public interests, and artificial guideposts have stunted important public debate on how we, as a society, care for the dignity of women and their children,” Fitch said.

“It is time for the Court to set this right and return this political debate to the political branches of government,” she wrote.

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