Heartbeat legislation began as a model bill that was circulated by fringe anti-abortion groups. In 2013 it was taken up, passed, and signed in North Dakota, but was quickly declared unconstitutional and struck down in the courts. Since then, similar bills have been drafted and introduced both federally and in dozens of state legislatures. None have ever been successfully implemented and at this point the legislators passing them and the advocates encouraging them don’t expect them to.
Instead, the goal has been to frame one of these laws in such a way that it wouldn't just get challenged but that it wouldto be heard by the Supreme Court. Mississippi's law has already been overturned by the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi; that ruling was upheld in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But on Monday, at least four of the six conservative members of the highest court in the land took the bait Dobbs offered up to hear an appeal.
Let me pause to say it's not a total lock that the justices will issue the sort of sweeping overhaul of federal jurisprudence that anti-abortion activists hope for. Nor has the court been 100 percent easy to predict as far as its
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