This article (on The Human Life Review’s website) was written by my friend and one of my mentors, Laura Echevarria.
Laura also served on staff at Choices Women’s Center, in the past, and after a hiatus from NRL returned as communications director and press secretary for National Right to Life. She has been in that role since June 2019.
This week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case concerns Mississippi’s 2018 “Gestational Age Act,” which prohibits abortion after 15-weeks of gestation (13-weeks after fertilization). The question before the Court, however, concerns whether the state has the right to protect unborn babies at any stage prior to viability. Legal commentators, pundits, and pro-abortion groups all have opinions regarding what may happen—or what they hope may happen—in this case, but what is clear is that the abortion issue is far from settled.
