John,
News broke today that the Supreme Court will hear a case from Mississippi challenging Roe v. Wade and the constitutionally protected right to access abortion.
The case concerns a law in Mississippi that would ban abortions if the probable gestational age was determined to be more than 15 weeks – an obvious violation of Roe, which forbids states from banning abortion before fetal viability. [1]
This case will be the first abortion case heard since the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, whose rushed nomination and vetting process tipped the court to a 6-to-3 conservative majority.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/us/politics/supreme-court-abortion.html