The Legal Question Presented in the Supreme Court's recent abortion case Dobbs v. Jackson, focused on Mississippi’s
“Gestational Age Act” law that protects the health of pregnant mothers, the
dignity of unborn children, and the integrity of the medical profession by
limiting abortions after 15 weeks in gestational age, permitting them only in
medical emergencies or for severe fetal abnormality, and the question was essentially “Whether all pre-viability
prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.”
The Court held that “the
Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are
overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and
their elected representatives.”
Knowledge of the law helps us to understand how all
family members, women and their children, are protected by this decision, upholding
life and family restoration for parents and their children.
To learn more on the effects of Roe and Casey on women and their children download and read Roe’s Effect
on Family Law, 71 Washington & Lee L. Rev. 1339
(2014).
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