A U.S. Supreme Court decision next year that could overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling would result in 21 states banning abortion due to laws or constitutional amendments already in place, according to an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice organization.
Legal observers within the pro-life community expressed cautious optimism Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court heard the most significant abortion case in decades and multiple justices indicated an openness to overturning or at least gutting Roe v. Wade.
On Tuesday, former Vice President Mike Pence asserted that the U.S. Supreme Court is facing a landmark opportunity to right the "historic wrong" of Roe v. Wade when it issues a decision in the much-publicized case involving Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban.
Mississippi's governor on Sunday pointed to biology and European abortion law in defending his state's 15-week abortion ban, asserting that most countries in Europe have laws more restrictive than in the United States.
Susan B. Anthony List, a leading pro-life group, has launched a $2.5 million ad campaign this week with the goal of changing public opinion on late-term abortion ahead of a significant U.S. Supreme Court case.
Some Supreme Court justices said this week that they are skeptical of a death row inmate's request to have his pastor pray out loud and touch him during his execution.
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a lower court will rehear the case of a coalition of nuns who say they are being forced to violate their religious beliefs under New York’s abortion mandate.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to halt Texas’ heartbeat abortion ban but agreed to hear oral arguments on November 1 in the Biden administration’s challenge to the law.
The commission established by President Biden to study possible Supreme Court reform says Congress has "broad power" to expand the high court, although the commission says its members are divided on the idea.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, says her state's case will have a nationwide impact and that she hopes the justices return the issue of abortion to the states.
