Rep. Chris Smith is a veteran of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. But the New Jersey Republican has a particular reason for optimism this year on the issue with which the New Jersey Republican is most closely identified.

Friday’s event comes a month and a half after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center. The case concerning a Mississippi law that bans elective abortion procedures after 15 weeks is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that effectively established national abortion rights.

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