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The abortion restriction Mississippi wants is actually moderate

By Tom Joyce
Published November 29, 2021 3:38pm ET
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The abortion restriction Mississippi wants is actually moderate
Emily Halvorson, center, of Washington, with Planned Parenthood, joins groups of abortion-rights and anti-abortion activists as they rally outside the Supreme Court, on, Nov. 1, 2021, as arguments are set to begin about abortion by the court, on Capitol Hill in Washington. | (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Mississippi has a reasonable request: to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

The state passed a law in 2018 that would have prevented abortion after 15 weeks except to protect the life of the mother, but it never went into effect. Rather, the state’s abortion clinic, Jackson Women’s Health Organization, sued, challenging the bill’s legality.

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