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Guest Commentary: Dobbs v. Jackson and Juliana v. United States: “Innumerable Human Lives”

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For us, Supreme Court precedent, yes stare decisis, is loud and clear : Women, and the privacy and integrity of our bodies and our equal status under law, are written in the silent ink of the Constitution through the fifth and fourteenth amendments. The boat is sinking. What will our Justices do? United States.

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Roe v. Wade hangs in balance as reshaped court prepares to hear biggest abortion case in decades

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Wednesday’s argument in Dobbs , which involves a Mississippi ban on almost all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, comes 30 days after the court heard arguments in another consequential abortion controversy: a pair of challenges to a six-week abortion ban that took effect in Texas on Sept. Mississippi’s arguments.

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Stephen Breyer, pragmatic liberal, will retire at end of term

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And in December, a majority of the court appeared ready to uphold a Mississippi law that (with limited exceptions) bans abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. At the oral argument in Dobbs v.

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