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(LifeSiteNews) – As pro-lifers around the world rejoice in the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, more of the legal backstory of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that brought down the federal “right” to abortion is coming to light.
Like any other major political victory, much thought and legal counsel went into navigating the living political arena with its unforeseen hurdles and changing landscape. Indeed, the final all-or-nothing approach taken for the presentation of oral arguments before the Supreme Court was considered by veteran legal strategists to be doomed to fail, but its success may help shape future litigation in the courts in like cases.
Notably, it “was difficult to get support from a number of life groups” for Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban rather than laws merely banning abortion at 20 or 22 weeks and “many, many people who were advising Mississippi informally said that they were crazy to ask for Roe to be
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