LGBTQ Advocates Slam Overturn of Roe v. Wade
metroweekly.comRoe v. Wade ruling guaranteeing the constitutional right to an abortion by a 5-4 vote, setting up a scenario in which more than half of the states in the country could be poised to, at some point, explicitly ban the procedure.
With Roe overturned, the legality of abortion now depends on individual state laws, who will be allowed to regulate the procedure — or ban it outright — as they see fit.
The ruling came in response to a dispute over a 2018 Mississippi law that banned abortions after 15 weeks, under the guise of prohibiting “inhumane procedures” on the grounds that a fetus is allegedly capable of detecting and responding to pain at that point in a pregnancy.
The law made exceptions for medical emergencies or cases of severe fetal abnormality, but not for rape or incest. It was challenged soon after passage, but was blocked from being enforced by a court order.
