Pro-Life Briefs Supporting Mississippi in Supreme Court Case Challenge the ‘Roe’ Narratives| National Catholic Register

Many pro-life advocates recently filed friend-of-the-court briefs to challenge the constitutionality of previability bans on abortion as the Supreme Court considers Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban.  The more than 75 friend-of-the-court briefs in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health strike at the reasoning behind the 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions that legalized abortion. Some briefs make a historical case for the recognition of fetal personhood and the overturning of Roe, while others point out harmful consequences of the legalization of abortion and debunk the societal narratives used in that decision. Robert George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, told the Register that the “briefing in support of Mississippi was exceptionally strong” and has “provided the justices with all the information they need to make a compelling case for overturning Roe v. Wade and to at least consider the question of whether the 14th Amendment should be interpreted as protecting the unborn in ways that would forbid states from exposing unborn children to elective abortion.”

Pro-Life Briefs Supporting Mississippi in Supreme Court Case Challenge the ‘Roe’ Narratives| National Catholic Register