Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gibson asks the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold abortion restrictions, which he helped put into state law. Gipson is a republican, state representative, and chairperson of the House Judiciary B Committee in 2018. The time he co-sponsored a bill to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Supreme court ruling in a court for fighting over the law could reshape abortion access across the United States.
For decades, the Mississippi law has never been enforced because the state’s only abortion clinic was sued quickly, and a federal judge ruled that the 15-weeks limit was unconstitutional.
A conservative federal sues the court by convincing in 2009, the judge had ruled correctly, and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed this year to consider the case. The coming agreement was scheduled for Dec.1.
Mississippi abortion case has recently developed a fight over a Texas law. It would ban most abortion around six weeks are the first big abortion rights tests in the Supreme Court, which has reshaped with three conservative justices nominated by former President Donald Trump.
Lynn Fitch, Mississippi Attorney General, has filed a written agreement asking the justices to use the Mississippi case to inverse Roe. v. Wade, the high court’s 1973 ruling, has legalized abortion rights nationwide.
Before, hundreds of people and groups filed at the Supreme Court to argue for or against the Mississippi law. A Baptist Minister, Gipson has filed a brief on, arguing Mississippi law that does not impose an undue burden on July 12.
Gipson’s attorneys have written the brief, “For women who choose to continue their pregnancies, Mississippi offers several resources to support them through birth and throughout the child-rearing years.”
His attorneys wrote Mississippi provides family planning services, prenatal healthcare, nutrition programs, day-care, and education. They have also mentioned that the state simplifies foster care and adoption programs. The overall statements conclude in short, Mississippi strives to assist any woman who needs resources to care for a baby, whether born or unborn.
On Wednesday's news release, the acting president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Adrienne Kimmell, called on Congress to enact a federal law to secure abortion rights. She has disapproved of making Mississippi law for asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Kimmell said, “With a supermajority on the Supreme Court openly providing the freedom, we are at a moment of crisis with the future of legal abortion hanging in the balance.”
“No matter the spin the court’s anti-choice justices may use to avoid laying bare their extremist agenda, the reality is that upholding Mississippi’s ban on abortion would overturn Roe v. Wade.”
Jackson Women’s Health Organization of Mississippi is the only abortion clinic that remains open and offers abortions up to 16 weeks of pregnancy. Clinic director Shannon Brewer has said about 10% of abortions there are done after 15 weeks. More than 90% of abortions in the U.S take place in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Mississippi attorney general argues that viability is an arbitrary usual that does not take sufficient account for the state’s interest in adopting abortion. The Mississippi law would allow exceptions to the 15 weeks ban in cases of a medical emergency or intense fetal abnormality.