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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of the United States granted a petition for certiorari and decided to hear oral arguments inMississippi vs. Jackson Women's Health, acase filed by the ACLU challenging a Mississippi law protecting life at 15 weeks gestation.



The 2018 law prohibits abortion when “the probable gestational age of the unborn human being” is “greater than” 15 weeks, “except in a medical emergency or in the case of a severe fetal abnormality…” not including Down Syndrome.



Supreme Court decisions imposing abortion on the American public have not settled abortion law, and this case underscores the reality that science has advanced since the landmarkRoe v. Wade(1973) andPlanned Parenthood v. Casey(1992) cases that allow abortion for any reason up to the point of viability (usually 24 weeks). 



While, we firmly believe that abortion at any gestational age is wrong, at 15 weeks gestation, unborn babies,



- Have fully developed hearts – pumping 26 quarts of blood per day

- Have arms and legs, fingers and toes with nails and developing fingerprints

- Have fully formed noses and lips

- Can taste and make facial expressions, yawn, hiccup, swallow, and suck their thumbs

- Have fully formed eyelids and eyebrows

- Can feel pain



Upholding the Mississippi law also supports pregnant women. There is a 38% increased mortality risk for women undergoing an abortion for each week past eight weeks gestation. Limiting abortion at 15 weeks greatly reduces the medical risks for mothers. It's a reminder that now is the time to humanize our laws and affirm the pro-life conclusions of an ever-growing body of scientific witnesses and social attitudes. In fact, the American people are speaking through their state legislatures with over 500 pro-life bills introduced in 2021. 



Here in North Carolina, there are 4 key bills we are supporting to advance your pro-life values:



- HB31: Bill to prohibit an abortion when a heartbeat is detected

- HB158: Bill which seeks a Constitutional Amendment to recognize life atfertilization

- HB453: The Human Life Nondiscrimination Act to prohibit eugenic abortions based on race and Down syndrome

- SB405: The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to protect infants born as a result of a failed abortion. 



We have been extremely active fighting for your values by working with our coalition to advance these bills in the legislature. The Supreme Court’s decision on the Mississippi case will decide, “Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional,” which will impact whether bills like the ones we are working to pass in North Carolina are Constitutional too. That’s why this case is SO IMPORTANT!



We recognized almost a year ago that the Mississippi case had the potential to impact North Carolina and to begin eroding the Supreme Court’s logic in Roe v. Wade. Therefore, our sister organization the Institute for Faith & Family filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court (which you can read here) <[link removed]>,to support Mississippi’s law limiting abortion at 15 weeks gestation.



Science has advanced since Roe and Casey were decided; now is the time to humanize our laws based on that science. We will file another Amicus Brief in the Mississippi case to argue just that, and to protect North Carolina’s right to pass laws like the bills we’re fighting to pass this year.  Our ultimate goal is that abortion will become both illegal and unthinkable .



I hope you will join us in this fight! Life is winning!



You can take an active role in helping us get these pro-life bills passed in the General Assembly this year!  Join us for our Legislative Days of Action on June 2nd and June 9th. <[link removed]> <[link removed]> Walk the halls of the legislature and advocate for these pro-life bills to members of the General Assembly by registering here <[link removed]>.



If you support our pro-life work, would you please consider making a monthly or one-time donation of $5, $10, $25, $50, $75, or $100 towards advancing pro-life legislation and filing pro-life Amicus Briefs? <[link removed]> <[link removed]>





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Sincerely,



Tami Fitzgerald

NC Values







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