Abortion

While Roe v. Wade has been Supreme Court precedent for 50 years, it is facing its biggest legal test right now, according to constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax, as Mississippi seeks to move the timetable on abortion restrictions.

The Supreme Court heard the oral arguments Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization.

Pro-life activists criticized Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Wednesday comments that fetal pain before 24 weeks was a “fringe” idea.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who has been anything but a solid conservative vote on the Supreme Court, signaled Wednesday a willingness to uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Justices have chance to 'end the faulty and unscientific framework of Roe'

In the biggest challenge to abortion rights in decades, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday signaled they would allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy and may even overturn the nationwide right that has existed for nearly 50 years.

"Abortion pills forever! Abortion pills forever!" they chant.

Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority suggest they may make sweeping changes to limit abortion rights in the United States.

A US Supreme Court shifted to the right by Donald Trump is to hear a case this week that may roll back 50 years of abortion rights.

June Associated Press/NORC poll shows only 19% of Americans support third-trimester abortion.