Thomas E. Dobbs et al., Petitioners
Scott G. Stewart, Counsel of Record
In 2018, the Mississippi legislature passed the Gestational Age Act, which prohibits abortion in the state after the 15th week of pregnancy except in cases where the mother’s health is at risk or there is a fetal abnormality. The law was viewed as a direct challenge to the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade precedent, which established a women’s constitutional right to abortion prior to the viability of the fetus outside the mother’s womb, a mark that is reached around the 24th week of pregnancy. …
