Conservative justices on the US Supreme Court signalled they could be willing to let states place new curbs on abortion, in a landmark case that threatens to alter longstanding legal precedent allowing women to terminate their pregnancies.
America’s highest court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the biggest challenge to abortion rights in generations, as the state of Mississippi seeks to overturn Roe vs Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that legalised abortion across the country.
At the centre of the case is a 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the only remaining abortion clinic in the Republican-led state, is seeking to stop the statute.
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