EXPLAINER: The Supreme Court takes a major abortion case

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Nearly 50 years after Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has agreed to decide a major abortion case - and possibly alter decades of rulings on abortion rights. Here are some questions and answers about the case.

FILE - In this June 20, 2019, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington as a storm rolls in.

It’s been nearly 50 years since the court announced in its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that women have a constitutional right to abortion.COULD THIS BE THE CASE THAT OVERTURNS ROE V. WADE? But many supporters of abortion rights are alarmed and many opponents of abortion are elated that the justices could undermine their earlier abortion rulings. If the court upholds Mississippi’s law, it would be its first ratification of an abortion ban before the point of viability, when a fetus can survive outside the womb. Such a ruling could lay the groundwork for allowing even more restrictions on abortion.

 

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And the attack on women's rights continues if they overturn roe v. Wade it would not shock me if women lost the right to vote next

Since then, enough babies, some 50M have been aborted. Enough to have a well populated country. The vast majority for 'convenience'.

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