Overturning Roe v Wade would be a huge first step toward ending and outlawing all abortion-killing, all pre-natal infanticide, in other words. It is not the end goal of a Personhood Amendment or a Life at Conception Act but it would be a defining victory. Abortion would be severely restricted in several states.
Update from CNA:
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/supreme-court-delays-decision-on-mississippi-abortion-law-again-63761"Pro-life advocates are hopeful the Supreme Court will review an abortion law in Mississippi, even though the court once again delayed its decision on whether to hear the case.
Lynn Fitch, the state’s attorney general, has asked the court to review its law, which bans abortion after fifteen weeks of gestation and has been challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights. The state’s only abortion clinic offers abortions until the 16th week of a pregnancy.
Mississippi’s previous governor, Phi Bryant (R) signed the ban into law in 2018, but it was subject to immediate legal appeal and blocked by a district court. In 2019, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the law to be unconstitutional. Fifteen weeks is considered to be prior to fetal viability outside the womb.
The Supreme Court had been expected to announce whether it would heat the case on Friday.
The court was due to conference regarding the law on Nov. 13, but instead announced on Monday that it had again delayed a decision. This is the fifth time since September 22 that the conference has been rescheduled. No reason for the delay, or new date, was given.
Noah Brandt, communications director for Americans United for Life, told CNA that “While we can’t know if the court will grant the petition, we do know that preborn children are just as human as the rest of us, and deserve the basic human rights granted to all Americans and enshrined in our cherished constitution.”
If the Supreme Court takes the case, the court “has the chance to preserve the Constitutional rights of a group of Americans most susceptible to violence and harm,” said Brandt.
“This case out of Mississippi would protect preborn children once they reach 15 weeks of age, a stage of development in which a baby has a strong heartbeat and all of the features we would recognize as intrinsically human,” he said.