In May, the Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments from Mississippi's case, Dobbs V. Jackson's Women's Health Organization, in an attempt to ban abortion after 15 weeks. This decision came around the same time Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the country's strictest ban on abortion into law, known as the Senate Bill-8. In September, the law went into effect, prohibiting women from getting the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy or when cardiac activity is detected. As a result, many clinics closed because individuals who help a woman get the procedure risk getting sued up to $10,000. However, in early October, a federal judge issued an order to block the law, but Governor Abbott immediately appealed the decision.
In this episode of Clarified, learn about how the 48 year precedent of Roe V. Wade is being challenged.
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