As Roe Hangs In The Balance New Texas Law Restricts Use Of Abortion Inducing Medicine
The new Texas law makes providing such medication a felony after seven weeks of pregnancy. The law also makes sending the medication through the mail illegal. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court began hearing the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case centers on a 2018 Mississippi state law that banned abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which conflicts with the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that gave women the right to an abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy, which equals approximately 24 weeks....