Mississippi Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Roe, Abortion Rights

Mississippi called on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, raising the stakes in a polarizing clash the justices are set to hear in the term that starts in October.

In a court filing Thursday, Mississippi Attorney General <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000017a-d038-d765-a37f-dcbad3f90000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Lynn Fitch called the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide, “egregiously wrong.” She said the case for overturning Roe and a 1992 follow-up ruling was “overwhelming.”

Those rulings “have proven hopelessly unworkable,” Fitch wrote. “They have inflicted profound damage. Decades of progress have overtaken them. Reliance interests do not support retaining them. And nothing ...