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Supreme Court likely to uphold Mississippi abortion law


|Shiksha Dev| THE DEN|

A Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday seems likely to curtail abortion rights in the United States and uphold a Mississippi law that violates one of the fundamental holdings in Roe v. Wade established more than half a century ago.

In the end, it was unclear whether the Supreme Court would overturn Roe and its findings that women have a fundamental right to terminate pregnancies.

In contrast, none of the six conservatives who make up the majority supported the court's rule that states cannot restrict abortion before fetal viability, which generally occurs around 22 to 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Roberts, often regarded as the most moderate of the conservatives, said Mississippi's law giving women enough time to decide whether to terminate their pregnancies was not a dramatic departure from viability.

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